Political Quotes

“I will not yield. I would appreciate the same courtesy from that side that I gave to you when you were doing your expositions about healthcare, which included the things that I have mentioned that aren't even in the bill. Our side has some time, and I would like to use some of that time. As I have been through this process for a long time now--I have been on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for the whole time that I have been here, which is 20 years. Of course, it wasn't Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions when I first got here, but we thought that that was a clever acronym: We are from the Federal Government, and we are here to help you. There are a lot of people back home who don't think we really help out much. But, at any rate, the small business health plans, after three of us who were in the Gang of 6 got thrown under the train or under the bus or whatever it was, small business health plans were changed to co-ops, and they were given a significant amount of money to work with, and they haven't fared very well. I will find the information about the co-ops here. Again, this isn't stuff that I wrote; this is stuff somebody else wrote and footnoted and sent to all of us. Again, the name of the book is ``Demystifying ObamaCare: How to Achieve Healthcare Reform.'' It gives some good suggestions. He does point out that ``ObamaCare is not a system of healthcare, nor is it healthcare reform.…”