Political Quotes

“The gentleman is correct. And, in fact, if the gentleman will recall, that in our committee work on these bills dealing with the Affordable Care Act, the chairwoman of the Subcommittee on Health actually had this as a stand-alone bill. It was not considered when we did the markup on the other four bills. For some reason, it fell off the list that day. I don't know why. I wasn't consulted, and I wasn't advised. But it was offered as one of the amendments up in the Rules Committee, again, by a Democratic member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, the chairwoman of the Subcommittee on Health, but the amendment was not made in order. And, again, I don't know why. I was not part of the discussion of the majority that decided which amendments were going to come to the floor. It was perhaps a little surprising, because a majority of the amendments that were made in order were Democratic amendments. And, again, this was a Democratic amendment. I think the ranking member of the full committee and I agree, that this is precisely the type of situation where you would want the purchaser to have complete knowledge of what they were buying. And the State Commissioner of Insurance, I know in my State in Texas, is very clear about that. On the website of the State of Texas, you need to know what you are buying. This would be one of those cases where that disclosure, in fact, would be extremely helpful to the family that is trying to make a decision.…”