Political Quotes

“This House passed a budget not many weeks ago that cut veterans benefits over the next 10 years by $6.2 billion. That is a fact. It is an absolute fact, and tonight, in the United States of America, while we have young men and women defending our Nation in Iraq, we are rationing health care to our Nation's veterans, rationing health care. This administration has decided to say to a whole host of veterans, which they call priority eight veterans, you are high income and, consequently, you are out of here, you cannot participate in the VA health care system. What do they mean by high income? In my District, they can be making as little as $22,000 a year and be considered high income. Think of that. Not only are they wanting to simply deny care for many veterans, but for others they want to impose additional financial burdens. They want to increase the cost of a prescription drug from $7 to $15 a prescription. They want to add a new annual enrollment fee of $250. They want to increase the cost of a clinic visit from $15 to $20. Mr. Speaker, when is it going to stop?”