Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman from Maryland, Representative Raskin. Mr. Speaker, it is great to have you presiding over the Chamber as well. It is all of our new Members here, and Representative Khanna from California, who is going to be taking over as co-chair of this Special Order hour for the Progressive Caucus. Mr. Speaker, we have to make sure that the American people understand exactly what is going on. This is a bill that the Senate has been negotiating in private. It has been 13 men discussing healthcare for all Americans across this country in a secret room. That is really what has been happening. Today we saw a draft of this bill, and the prevailing wisdom, when the bill passed the House, was that the Senate would completely revamp the bill. But according to The New York Times, it said: The Senate bill ``once promised as a top-to-bottom revamp of the health bill passed by the House . . . instead maintains its structure, with modest adjustments.'' It is the same bill. It is the same bill. And in fact, in some ways, it is a little bit worse because the cuts to Medicaid, while they don't take effect as quickly and they are more gradual, they are actually deeper than the House cuts to Medicaid. There are other things in the bill that have been done, really, in part, to affect how the American people see the bill but don't change the basic provisions of this bill.…”