Political Quotes

“I come to the floor today as I have so many times since the President's health care bill was signed into law, with a doctor's second opinion. I do that because I practiced medicine in Wyoming, taking care of families from around the State for about a quarter of a century. When I talk to patients at home and I talk to people on the street, when I talk to folks all around my State and around the country, what I hear they want from a health care law was an opportunity to have the care they need from the doctor they want at a cost they can afford. But what we have gotten in this country through this administration and this health care law is a law that is bad for patients, in my opinion; bad for providers, the nurses and doctors who take care of those patients; and terrible for American taxpayers. So I come to the floor again with a second opinion today because I am thinking about job creation. We just heard about the Keystone XL Pipeline and the opportunity there with a shovel-ready project to get people back to work. I am reminded what former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi claimed after the health care law was passed. She said it would ``create 4 million jobs.'' She went on to say ``400,000 jobs almost immediately.'' As we all know, that prediction never came true. In fact, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said the health care law will actually encourage some people to work fewer hours or to withdraw from the labor market altogether.…”