Political Quotes

“what is happening here this morning provides yet another example of the complete indifference of this House Republican leadership to the retirement security of millions of older Americans. Like their pseudo-prescription drug plan, which is not a plan to help seniors but only a scheme to subsidize HMOs and deny seniors their choice of doctors; like their persistence in seeking to privatize and undermine our Social Security system and end the basic guaranteed retirement upon which so many Americans have relied for the last seven decades. Today, Republicans reject the pleas of firefighters, of police officers, of teachers, and of the other public servants who have asked this Congress for years to correct the government pension offset that cuts into their retirement security after they have served America, often at very low wages in very critical jobs. The Republicans' refusal to permit debate on the amendment that I offered or the amendment that our colleague, the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Jefferson) offered can only add to the cynicism of those who have strived for so long to have their voices heard in this Congress on this matter and who have yet to even get a vote on the floor, much less passage, of this measure.”