Political Quotes

“During the first 7 months of this year in this Republican House, we met for a total of 87 days. In those 87 days, the House managed to pass a little less than five bills per month that actually have been enacted into law. This is significantly less than even the record-setting do-nothing Republican Congress of the last two years. It is a truly awe-inspiring record of the Republican leadership working so very, very hard to accomplish so very, very little. There are so many issues out there that demand the attention of this Congress: public education quality; health care; the repeated requests from all over this country for this Congress to address the matter of the rights of those who are in managed health care organizations; the requests of our seniors from all over this country to provide a mechanism for getting prescription drugs at a reasonable price; the desire of so many Americans to see that their private health care records that contain confidential information that should be just between them and their health care provider, but they see this information spread out across the Internet and shared with others, those privacy rights, very, very great concern. Certainly the question with health care, even a more modest bill but vitally important to many American citizens who are currently disabled, to try to help them keep their health insurance so they can get back in the workforce.”