Political Quotes

“My colleagues, I want to focus now on all of the details that the Republicans have given to us today and every other day in the course of this debate about the future of Medicare. Here it is. Here is the plan as they have described it here on the floor, a complete and total blank, and I would challenge the majority leader, the gentleman from Texas, or any other member of the Republican majority, to have the courage to come and fill in this blank page, because the media has already done it by investigating their secret task forces, and they have told the people of America that what this plan calls for is more copayments, more in higher deductibles, more in higher premiums that will come right out of the pocket of America's seniors. The majority leader has just tried to amplify on his remarks. What else did he say on Tuesday according to the Houston Chronicle? 'I resent the fact that I'm 65 and must enroll in Medicare, but I'm not dumb enough to think I'm going to go out there and lay out a plan.' That is why we have a blank. They do not want the American people to know what they are doing in cutting Medicare.”