Political Quotes

“Under the amendment we just agreed to, we made some progress on handling liability. But there is a group of businesses that were left out. You will never hear me in this Chamber talk about big businesses. I always talk about the small ones. None of these is headquartered in Wyoming. But I am compelled to put in an amendment that will take care of a major problem which will take care of health care at the level they know it for 6 million people in the U.S. who work for the big, self-insured, self-administered companies, such as Hewlett-Packard, Caterpillar, Wal-Mart, and Pitney Bowes. None of those is in my State. This provides an option to allow one of two ways of providing insurance to their people so individuals can get the right to sue if they want that right or they can stay with the plan which they presently get all the benefits from without any difficulty. This provides that option for them. This is providing an option so that the company can avoid liability by providing a liability option for their people. I ask for your support on this amendment to clear up what the people in your State need.”