Political Quotes

“this being tax week, people all around the country are sending in their tax returns. The deadline just passed yesterday--April 17--so people are focused a lot on what happens in Washington. They think about the IRS. They think about the money being sent and how that money is being spent. As people pay their annual tax bills, I wish to remind Americans about how the Obama administration is actually spending tax dollars on the President's unpopular health care law. That is why I come to the floor, as I have every week since the health care law passed, with a doctor's second opinion about the health care law. I said at the time it was passed that there would be some new revelation, some unintended consequence, something new that people would learn week after week. As someone who has practiced medicine for almost a quarter of a century taking care of families in Wyoming, I wanted to offer a doctor's second opinion, because I felt from the beginning that in spite of the many promises the President made, the bill that was actually passed and signed into law is one that is bad for patients, bad for providers--the nurses and the doctors who take care of those patients--and terrible for taxpayers. So I come to the floor because it seems to me that instead of using much of the money to improve medical care in America, this administration is devoting hundreds of millions of dollars to what--the Internal Revenue Service.…”