Political Quotes

“I just want to elaborate on what the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Delahunt) has said. He talked about the increase in poverty. In the New York Times today, "Big Increase Seen in People Lacking Health Insurance, Largest Rise in a Decade." The number of people without health insurance shot up last year by 2.4 million, the largest increase in a decade, raising the total to 43.6 million Americans without health insurance. We have a crisis in this country. Unemployment, health care, prescription drug coverage, an exploding deficit, an ever-increasing debt, we are not building our roads, our bridges, our water and sewer systems, our schools, our VA hospitals, our medical clinics; and yet the President seems so determined to take resources from the American taxpayer and send them to Iraq. And I will tell Members something else which concerns me, and that is the possibility of profiteering off this war. I think we will talk about some of the contracts that have been let a little later tonight, but it troubles me that some people are getting rich off this war. We have young soldiers over there without protective armor. About 40,000 are without the best protection we can provide. Madam Speaker, when they get wounded and come back to Walter Reed Hospital or the Bethesda Naval Hospital and they spend a week or 2 weeks or a month there, when they leave, they are presented with a bill totaling $8.10 a day for the food they have consumed. What has become of us.…”