Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I want to do what I do often, which is come to the floor of the House and talk to my colleagues on both sides about the issues that remain in health care. This Congress, as it winds down in its last days, has certainly seen and done some dramatic work and has seen some dramatic pushback by the American people on some of the work that's been done. So I thought it might be useful as we wind up this last part of the 111th Congress, the Congress that will forever go down in history as that which has fundamentally changed the way every man, woman, and child in this country receives and will receive health care for the next several generations, I thought it appropriate to talk a little bit about how we got to where we are, and quite frankly what I see over the horizon, what is likely to occur in the next Congress that convenes in the early part of January. Certainly, when you look at the history that was written by this Congress, starting off with all the bright prospects in early 2009, in January 2009, and even going back a few months before that, I honestly thought that the health care bill that would see the light of day in the House was something that would actually be written by the Senate Finance Committee before this Congress was ever sworn in. I was, frankly, surprised when the Congress was sworn in and in fact inauguration day came and went and there was no introduction of a health care bill.…”