Political Quotes

“I come to the floor, having heard my colleague's concerns and story of a family who was helped by the President's health care law. We want people in this country to be helped. My concern is there are a lot of people who are actually being hurt by the President's health care law. We shouldn't have to hurt people, specifically people who have had insurance, to try to help people who haven't had insurance. That is the big concern that my friend from Connecticut referred to as I came to the floor this morning to discuss. I have grave concerns about the impact on the people of Wyoming and all around the country as we are getting letters and concerns. We were told on the floor that all of these stories--nine of us were reading different stories--that all of these are lies. These are not lies. These are people hurt by the President's health care law. We see them in States all around the country. We don't know how many people have signed up, how many have gone to the Web site. The White House can't even tell us if they know how many have insurance. Sure, they may have had a lot of people visit the Web site. I wonder how many people have actually paid to have insurance? What the President asked for is he said: We are going to get 30 million people who didn't have insurance to have insurance. It looks as if there may be fewer than 2 million who go through that.…”