Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman for yielding and I thank him for holding this hour tonight. It is important that we have this discussion. We're barely 3 weeks from the third anniversary of that late-night congressional session where the Affordable Care Act was passed into law. Those of us who were here at the time will remember that this bill that became law that was voted on late that night never went through our committee. We had a bill that went through our committee, but it never saw the light of day. This was a Senate bill that was bounced back over to the House, and we were forced to pass it without a single hearing, without a markup. It basically just came to us and the majority at the time, the Democratic majority, pushed it through. When you stop and look at what were the American people telling us through the summer of 2009, when we all had those very tense town halls in our district, what were people saying to us? Number one, do not mess up the system that is working well for 65 or 70 percent of us. Number two was, if you're going to do anything at all, can you help us with costs? Well, I think we have the answer to those two questions. Number one, we have messed the system up for the people who were depending upon it, and, the costs are going through the roof. But when you analyze what this new data means, the real thrust of the cost increases are focused on people who buy in the individual market and people who buy in the small group market.…”