Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman from the Virgin Islands. And I always enjoy hearing from the gentlewoman from the Chicago area, and I appreciate everything that she is doing as well. It is interesting the President posed that question: What do you have to lose? What he was referencing to was the African-American community. Instead of offering anything of substance, he just put out that very simple question. I have got to tell you that it is pretty evident what we have to lose now. It is not only a lot of the gains that were made under the Obama Administration, but something that is near and dear to all of us, and that is health care. I think about the district that I represent, and 40,000 people or more have actually been covered because of the Affordable Care Act. They will probably lose that insurance if TrumpCare were to become law. And if you represent low-income families and workers out there, that is a scary prospect. It is already bad enough that the State of Texas made probably what is considered one of the biggest policy blunders in Texas State legislative history when they decided not to expand Medicaid, which left so many others statewide, including in the district I represent, again, off of the insurance rolls. What do you have to lose? God, there are so many ways and so many areas that I can sort of describe what you would have to lose.…”