Political Quotes

“before I start, I noted that the Senator from Connecticut came to the floor in an attempt to debunk a letter from one of my constituents to me, a family from Rawlins, WY, whom I talked about earlier on the floor. It seems the Senator is making the same argument the majority leader Senator Reid has made time and time again that these letters are made up. That is what seems to be the case. Is that what the Senator from Connecticut is saying? These are letters, these are emails, these are news articles that are out there coming from our constituents and coming from our home States. This was all supposed to be about affordable care. Care and affordability were the keystones of this entire piece of legislation. So I heard the Senator from California talking about people being denied care. It is happening now because of the health care law-- because of the health care law people are being denied care. Let me reference where my colleague from Connecticut comes from. The State of Connecticut, the Hartford Courant, a major newspaper in the State of Connecticut, has a report that came out March 17 of this year, just a couple of weeks ago: ``Connecticut Is Less Competitive After Federal Health Care Reform.'' I heard the Senator from California saying there are people who have been helped, and I believe that, but for every one person who has been helped, I believe many have been harmed as a result of the law.…”