Political Quotes

“Thank you, Mr. Speaker. One thing we've got plenty of around here is paper, unfortunately. We've got bills, we've got laws that we should have taken up that we haven't. And when we talk about the health care bill, people know we talk about ObamaCare, whatever the formal name is. Cutting $500 billion out of Medicare already. That's a done deal. That was rammed through by the majority when Speaker Pelosi was in charge at the behest of our President Obama--$500 billion in cuts. Our seniors deserve better than that kind of treatment. Republicans, I don't think we had any Republicans vote for that. But it was driven through against the will of the American people, and against the will of the Republicans. But Democrats had the votes, so they did it--$500 billion in cuts to Medicare. So when AARP has all these seniors send in petitions saying, I'm a member of AARP, don't you dare cut anything from Medicare, we try to make sure our seniors know that it was AARP that stood by the President as he cut $500 billion, and we're glad that they're finally waking up to just what the President and AARP, with AARP's assistance, what they did to seniors. But if you look at how much money we are spending on Medicare, not to even mention right now Medicaid, just look at how much we're spending on Medicare, and you look at the number of households we have, around 17.5 million Medicare households--this was from 2009.…”