Political Quotes

“I come to the floor because this week President Obama is going to present his new jobs plan to the American people and to all of us. I am certain we will hear a lot of talk and a lot of promises. I remember when former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi famously announced in 2010 their White House health care summit. I sat around the table at that summit. In the discussion, she said the President's new health care law would create 4 million jobs. Here is exactly what former Speaker Pelosi promised on February 25, 2010. She said: . . . this bill is not only about the health security of America, it's about jobs. In its life it will create 4 million jobs--400,000 jobs almost immediately. I ask, where are the jobs? The fact is, the President's health care law didn't create jobs. As a physician, I have come to the floor every week since the health care law has been signed and have given a doctor's second opinion about this health care law and why I believe it is bad for patients, bad for providers--the nurses and the doctors who take care of those patients--and terrible for the taxpayers. Here we are 17 months after the President signed his health care plan into law and the American people have yet to see job growth anywhere near the figures promised by Nancy Pelosi. In fact, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported last week the American economy generated a whopping zero jobs during the month of August.…”