Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition once again to an attempt by the majority to defeat the Affordable Care Act. This begins the third year that the majority has attempted to put an end to affordable, available and accessible health care for all Americans. They have ignored the law, a Supreme Court decision and a national presidential election that affirmed the establishment, legality, and popularity of the Affordable Care Act. I oppose this bill for three reasons: there are much more pressing issues facing our nation, this bill is wrong on the facts, and the Affordable Care Act is working. There are much more pressing issues facing our nation: unemployment, food security, housing security and access to job training that leads to employment. We should be debating a bill to restore emergency supplemental unemployment benefits. We should be restoring cuts the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program that was cut by nearly $20 billion dollars over several years. We should be voting to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour over several years and link future increases of the minimum wage to inflation. We should be taking up the budget process with eagerness to avoid another government shutdown. In 2013, we had a Federal government shutdown because we lost precious legislative time voting to repeal or seriously diminish the ability of the Affordable Care Act to do what it is currently doing-- providing health insurance to millions of Americans.…”