Two quotes from Nancy Pelosi...
Then: "Everybody will have lower rates, better quality and better access."
NOW: "I don't remember ever saying everyone in the country will have lower premiums."
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Congressman John Conyers (D-MI) weighs in on the proposed legislation eight months before its passage, on July 24, 2009, at the National Press Club: "What good is reading the bill if it's a thousand pages and you don't have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?"
Then: "Everybody will have lower rates, better quality and better access."
NOW: "I don't remember ever saying everyone in the country will have lower premiums."
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Congressman John Conyers (D-MI) weighs in on the proposed legislation eight months before its passage, on July 24, 2009, at the National Press Club: "What good is reading the bill if it's a thousand pages and you don't have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?"
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/26846.html
Note: Conyers made his comment when the ACA legislation as it existed was "only" 1,017 pages. The bill eventually ballooned to over 2,700 pages before it was passed. The bureaucratic process has since added regulations that are eight times as long as The Holy Bible and bring the count now to over 20,000 pages that stand 7-feet high when stacked in a pile.
Obama at a Virginia campaign stop, August 6, 2009: "I don't want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking. I want them just to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess. I don't mind cleaning up after them, but don't do a lot of talking."
Now, in the interest of being levelheaded, mature, pragmatic and even-tempered I must cast my eyes on Republican stances through the same filter!
"Will Speaker Pelosi Wait for the 'Final Number' from the CBO?" — House GOP Twitter Handle, March 18, 2010
Nancy Pelosi wrote in a letter to Speaker Ryan March 7, 2017. "Members must not be asked to vote on this legislation before the CBO and Joint Committee on Taxation have answered the following questions...
"I don't think we should pass bills that we haven't read that we don't know what they cost." — Paul Ryan, July 29, 2009. And this, "If you rush this through before anyone even knows what it is, that's not good democracy."
"Congress is moving fast to rush through a health care overhaul that lacks a key ingredient: the full participation of you, the American people." — Paul Ryan, July 18, 2009
"We shouldn't rush this thing through just to rush it through for some artificial deadline. Lets get this thing done right." — Paul Ryan, July 2009
And finally, "Congress and the White House have focused their public efforts on platitudes and press conferences, while the substance and the details have remained behind closed doors." — Paul Ryan, July 2009
Note: Conyers made his comment when the ACA legislation as it existed was "only" 1,017 pages. The bill eventually ballooned to over 2,700 pages before it was passed. The bureaucratic process has since added regulations that are eight times as long as The Holy Bible and bring the count now to over 20,000 pages that stand 7-feet high when stacked in a pile.
Obama at a Virginia campaign stop, August 6, 2009: "I don't want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking. I want them just to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess. I don't mind cleaning up after them, but don't do a lot of talking."
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius even hypes it at the 2012 DNC: "But for us Democrats, Obamacare is a badge of honor. Because no matter who you are, what stage of life you're in, this law is a good thing."
Now, in the interest of being levelheaded, mature, pragmatic and even-tempered I must cast my eyes on Republican stances through the same filter!
"Will Speaker Pelosi Wait for the 'Final Number' from the CBO?" — House GOP Twitter Handle, March 18, 2010
Nancy Pelosi wrote in a letter to Speaker Ryan March 7, 2017. "Members must not be asked to vote on this legislation before the CBO and Joint Committee on Taxation have answered the following questions...
"I don't think we should pass bills that we haven't read that we don't know what they cost." — Paul Ryan, July 29, 2009. And this, "If you rush this through before anyone even knows what it is, that's not good democracy."
"Congress is moving fast to rush through a health care overhaul that lacks a key ingredient: the full participation of you, the American people." — Paul Ryan, July 18, 2009
"We shouldn't rush this thing through just to rush it through for some artificial deadline. Lets get this thing done right." — Paul Ryan, July 2009
And finally, "Congress and the White House have focused their public efforts on platitudes and press conferences, while the substance and the details have remained behind closed doors." — Paul Ryan, July 2009
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