Political Quotes

“I support the reconciliation bill that is before us. It will do the job. It will end the Affordable Care Act that the American people rightly have opposed, and it will put us in a position to repeal this monstrosity of a 1,700-page bill that was jammed through Congress in the last hours before Christmas Eve in 2009. I remember that day very well. It was a strict party-line vote and was passed despite the objections of the American people. It resulted in quite a number of people who voted for it not being in the Senate or the House again, and it remains a decisive issue for our country. Six years ago, the American people did not favor this legislation, they resisted it. But the Democratic leadership and President Obama determined they were going to pass it, no matter what the people said. They were going to get this done, and they rammed it through on Christmas Eve of 2009, even though Scott Brown was elected a month later in Massachusetts on a campaign to kill the bill. Had he been here at that time, there would have been only 59 votes, insufficient votes to shut off debate, and the bill would not have passed. He won in Massachusetts--one of our most liberal States--on a campaign that said: I will be the vote that kills this legislation. So I want to say first and foremost that the American people knew this wouldn't work. They opposed it from the beginning, they opposed the philosophy of it, and they knew we were going to have a mess on our hands.…”