I came to the conclusion months ago, and I said it to members of Congress, that the only way people are going to fully appreciate what this reform is if we pass it and implement it and it becomes not a caricature but a reality, and I still believe that. So I think it will be easier to sell it moving forward than it was to this point.
Most of what we report from Congress they don't care about unless it affects them directly.
I do not believe that Congress or the Administration should prohibit the medical community from pursuing a promising avenue of research that may improve the lives of millions of Americans.
From early on, everything I did was calculated to being elected to Congress.
We have some Jewish members of Congress, not a lot but there's a bunch of us.
I just thought it was unconscionable for the Congress to insert itself into this debate. We are particularly unqualified to make that decision and to intrude ourselves into the lives of this family.
The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government.