Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, we are about to adjourn, and yet we are going to leave the American people without the resources and the legislation they need to provide the kind of security that the bipartisan 9/11 Commission said was necessary. Five F's and 14 D's on the Commission's scorecard, yet we can't act on the 9/11 Commission's recommendations. Mr. Speaker, we have the greatest gap in compensation between the rich and the poor that we have ever had since the days of the Great Depression in this country, and yet we can't even see our way through to raising the minimum wage from $5.15 to $7.25 an hour. Shame on this Congress. Mr. Speaker, there are hundreds of thousands of senior citizens who are being dumped into the doughnut hole as we speak, who are going to have to pay 100 percent of the cost of their prescription drugs. And do you know that there are hundreds of thousands of additional senior citizens, Mr. Speaker, who are going to be stuck with a penalty of paying an extra 7 percent premium for the rest of their lives because we couldn't fix the Medicare prescription drug program to eliminate the monthly penalty and the prohibition on the government's ability to negotiate lower prices? It was written for and passed for the benefit of the drug companies, not the senior citizens of America.”