House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said the attempt to repeal health care reform is just a manifestation of the “so be it” attitude made infamous by House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH).
“I urge my colleagues to vote against this amendment, which is another manifestation of the ‘so be it’ attitude of some in Congress at the expense of many in our country,” Pelosi said Friday.
“This is again, yet again another example of our friends standing up for the insurance companies at the expense of the American people,” Pelosi said on the floor of the House. “Standing up for the insurance company at the expense of a health and well-being of our country. It is again an example of holding on to the special interest status quo. It is again this Congress saying to the American people, we are here for the special interest. We are not here for the people’s interest.”
Pelosi said those voting to repeal heath care reform were telling Americans that if they “can’t pay your mortgage, because you have to pay your medical bills, so be it.”
“The American people are desperate for jobs. They sent us here to work together to create jobs. And not in the six weeks of this new majority, not one piece of legislation has come forward to create one job,” Pelosi said.
“Showing the lack of ideas to do so the Republican majority has chosen instead to change the subject,” Pelosi added.
