Political Quotes

“when we hear the story like the one that was just recounted, a person who is going to be facing $17,000 in bills with no remedy, we have to ask, well, why is this Congress not out here working on it tonight. It was a little over a year ago that I offered in the House Committee on Ways and Means with our colleague the gentlewoman from Florida (Mrs. Thurman) a proposal to deal with this price discrimination problem that would not have set up any government bureaucracy. In fact, that aspect of it would not have entailed any substantial cost. Every Republican member of our committee voted against that proposal. And we have advanced it again this year. Every one of them voted against it again. Only after their public relations firm told them they had a problem did they come up with the plan the Republican presidential candidate is advancing. The presidential elections I know are capturing most of the attention, but there is no good reason why the Congress should not be acting now. The gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hastert) could put this back on the agenda. It could be put on the agenda in the Senate and present the next President of the United States with a plan that was already in place that could be implemented. This Democratic plan that we have been talking about tonight, it could go into effect now.”