Political Quotes

“over the past several weeks, I spent a lot of time traveling around my home State of Wyoming. I know the Presiding Officer spent a lot of time traveling around his home State of Oklahoma. I talked to a lot of people in Wyoming, as he did in Oklahoma, about one of the top concerns of the things that are on their minds. To me, and I know to the Presiding Officer, that has been the Obama health care law and the disastrous problems that people are facing. People now tell me that some of them are paying more for their health insurance than they are for their mortgage. That is not just a problem in Oklahoma or in Wyoming; it is a problem all across the country. And that is now. What they are also doing is reading stories in the papers, front-page stories that are saying the rates next year are going to go up again-- not just a little but a lot. I know that my Senate colleagues from all across the country--Republicans and Democrats--are hearing that because of the disastrous problems that the Obama health care law is currently experiencing. In Wyoming, the Obama health insurance exchange has only one company selling insurance--only one. Wyoming is not alone. This wasn't supposed to happen. The Democrats in Congress who supported this health care law said that they were going to create more competition--bring down prices by lots of competition. I can still remember when the President gave a speech to Congress in 2009, and what did he tell us?…”