Affordability Quote by Kent Conrad

Reconciliation cannot be used to pass comprehensive health care reform. It won't work because it was never designed for that kind of significant legislation;…

— Kent Conrad

Reconciliation is a special budget procedure to change entitlement and tax laws. It cannot be filibustered and requires only a simple majority in the…

— Jeff Miller

When Republicans used reconciliation in 2001 for the Bush tax cuts, they used it to increase the deficit. The whole purpose of reconciliation is…

— Kent Conrad

We should be working together across the aisle to strengthen the Affordable Care Act, fix the aspects that need fixing, bring down costs and…

— Dean Phillips

Medicaid is essentially bankrupt, Medicare is essentially bankrupt, why the heck would we give the federal government another entitlement program to manage?

— Anonymous

The bottom line is, what are we doing to Obamacare? We eviscerate the law in our bill, and then we do things like expanding…

— Steve Scalise

I think if you look at Medicare and Medicaid, the premise was that government needs to provide some assistance to people who aren't able…

— Tim Pawlenty

There are several different ways we can get at unclogging the arteries of lending in America and helping working people achieve financial independence. Part…

— Jeb Hensarling

For the states that take the lead on reform - asset recycling, deregulation, service innovation - the Federal Government could step back, and allow…

— Gladys Berejiklian

In 2005, Republicans passed a 360-page reconciliation bill without a single Democratic vote that provided deep cuts to Medicaid and raised premiums on Medicare beneficiaries.

— Bernie Sanders

We certainly will have a vote on proceeding to a bill to repeal Obamacare... it was a very large issue in the campaign. And,…

— Mitch McConnell

Working together in a bipartisan way, we can truly lower the cost of health care while improving quality for the American people.

— Charles Boustany