Political Quotes

“I rise in strong support of the Protect Women's Health Care from Corporate Interference Act. I thank my colleague Senator Murray from Washington and my colleague Senator Udall from Colorado for introducing this bill and Senator Murray for her long championed efforts on women's health. I am very proud to support this bill. I guess I would say to my colleague, who I know feels passionately about these issues, that the issue is really how important prescription benefits are to women's health and particularly how important contraception is to women and the fact that it is not an add-on to our health care but, rather, an essential part of our health care. So I hope it doesn't really take us getting a majority of women on the Supreme Court to convince people how central this issue is to the health care of women and why we don't want to deal with a boss who decides to say: I don't want to cover that in employee benefit packages. I hope I and my colleagues will get a chance to vote on this legislation because I think the Supreme Court's ruling in this case 2 weeks ago really set us on a slippery slope. In a 5-to-4 decision they held that corporations can deny contraceptive coverage for women who are their employees if the owner--if the owner--professes a religious objection. I know my colleagues think, why don't we just make this product more available so that women can pay an out-of-pocket amount for it?…”