Quotes about Reform Bill

Kristi Noem

Every one says: 'Listen, I'd love to reinvest. I'd love to hire people. But I have no idea what this healthcare bill is going to do to my bottom line. I have no idea what this financial reform bill is going to do... I'm not going to step out a limb and do any of those until I know what this government is going to do to me.'

Robert Peel

The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood!

Richard Shelby

A lot of people don't believe that Kirk-Heitkamp is a real reform bill.

Mike Ross

I'm one of those that have said, one of my key principles is I will not support a health care reform bill that is not deficit-neutral, period.

Jim McGovern

I ran for Congress in 1996 to help Ted Kennedy pass a comprehensive health insurance reform bill.

Virginia Foxx

The proposed Health Care Reform bill will put seniors in a position of being put to death by their government.

Sarah Palin, former Republican Governor of Alaska, coined a new term when she charged that proposed Health Care legislation would create a "death panel" See Palin Quotation 644138. It was an absolute lie totally made up by Palin. However a number of conservative members of Congress then repeated the prevarication in Congressional Debate and elsewhere. One poll showed that after it spread, about 85% of respondents were familiar with the charge and of those who were familiar with it, about 30% thought it was true and Palin's new term won the dubius distinction of winning the "Lie of the Year" award. Despite the fact that it was totally false, in order to win Obamacare be a single vote, the President had to eliminate the part of the bill that allowed payment to physicians to take the time and explain to patients and/or their families, the various options of palliative treatment during the last months of life. Many people thought that the doctors would form death panels.

Lawrence Kudlow

Former Sen. Alan Simpson of Wyoming, the co-author of the 1986 Simpson-Mazzoli immigration reform bill, has said the failure of that bill was a function of the lack of an ID card system.

Tom Cole

I have never seen the author of a reform bill who was able to predict accurately what would really happen when the bill was passed.

There seem to be many unintended consequences to most new legislation and reform legislation is almost always breaking new ground.

Thomas J. Donahue

On immigration reform you don’t get a bill without a path to citizenship .

for the existing illegal immigrants

Juan Williams

And there is no getting away from the fact - and this is a key point of discontent among many who are upset with the health care reform bill is it didn't go far enough. They say why isn't it in place now? Why don't I see some benefits now? All I see is the potential for losing insurance coverage, for premiums going up. That's hurting Obama.

John Bright

Any Reform Bill which is worth a moment's thought, or the smallest effort to carry it, must at least double, and it ought to do much more than double, the representation of the metropolitan boroughs and of all the great cities of the United Kingdom.

Don Nickles

I think there's bipartisan support in the Senate to pass a good reform bill.

Ted Stevens

I rise today to discuss the National Intelligence Reform bill. I commend my colleagues in both Houses for their hard work in coming to an agreement. As with any conference, each voice is heard, but none can dominate and compromise must be achieved.

Cory Booker

In fact, when I first came to the Senate, people laughed. I had people telling me, 'There's no way you're going to get a comprehensive criminal justice reform bill done.'

Daniel Pfeiffer

There's a lot of work you have to do before you ever fire the starting gun on a health reform bill - doing the scut work with members of Congress, talking to your allies - to figure out the best plan.

Reform Bill Quotes