Political Quotes

“I appreciate the gentleman so much for yielding to me. Mr. Chairman, I would say that, if I were in a court of law, I would tell you in advance that I am about to make an argument that is conditionally relevant, meaning: Bear with me. It will make sense when I get to the point. So this morning, in committee--and I serve on the Energy and Commerce Committee--we were having a hearing and ObamaCare came up. About five or six times, people said, on the Democrat side of the aisle, ObamaCare is being sabotaged by the Trump administration. Well, I started thinking about that, and I realized that that wasn't really fair, that the problem was that this Congress and the Democrats in this House voted for a bill that mentioned the Secretary, HHS Secretary, 3,033 times; 974 times it said the ``Secretary shall'' and then went on to say something else. According to Dr. Burgess, he estimated that there were actually 262 different action items in ObamaCare voted on by the Democrats. None of the Republicans in the House at the time--I was not here, but none of the Republicans voted for it. 262 action items were given over to the Secretary. So now we have the SHIELD Act, and you are saying: All right, Morgan, what does this have to do with the SHIELD Act?…”