Political Quotes

“Madam Chairman, I have seen shameless acts on this floor before, and we are watching another one with the last few speakers that we have seen here today. The facts of the case are--and people know this--we passed a budget resolution which is a construct to ask this House of Representatives to consider a plan so that we do not bankrupt Medicare--which is exactly what anyone who voted for the health care plan on March 21 or 22 1 year ago did. The plan which President Obama and Speaker Pelosi at that time supported took $500 billion out of Medicare to support a plan--which could not be sustained either--which cost $2 trillion for health care. So this year, Republicans have a plan to sustain Medicare that is a market-based plan. It's not a voucher program. Not one person who is presently on Medicare today nor anybody that is 55 years old or older today would be impacted by this plan. It is a plan that says we should challenge the Congress of the United States--including the administration also--to come up with a plan about how we can sustain Medicare, as we do see a doubling over the next 15 years of people who will be expected to participate in that plan. So that we get this right for once, let me say this: It is not a voucher program. It does not impact anyone that is presently on Medicare. So the shameless things we've heard today about everyone's grandmother and everybody's grandfather and all these people that will be thrown off Medicare, they will be unaffected.…”