"This is my one small contribution to the history of our times: To tell the history of our times in the language of our times." - The Rev. James B. Simpson.

House approves Health Care Reform

This is what change looks like. We proved that this government — a government of the people and by the people — still works for the people.

— Remarks made by President Obama Sunday night (3.21.10) after the House voted 219 to 212 to approve health care reform.

Senator John McCain attends health care summit

Both of us ... promised 'change in Washington.'... Eight times you (Obama) said negotiations on healthcare reform would be conducted before C-Span cameras. I'm glad, more than a year later, that they are here.

Unfortunately, this (Democratic) product was not produced in that fashion. It was produced behind doors.

— Remarks made by Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) at a White House summit (Feb. 25, 2010) aimed at trying to reach a bipartisan agreement to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system.

Obama holds health care summit

The question I'm going to ask myself and I ask of all of you, is there enough serious effort that in a month's time or a few week's time or six weeks' time, we could actually resolve something. And if we can't, we've got to go ahead and make some decisions.

— Remarks made by President Barack Obama at a White House summit on Thursday (Feb. 25, 2010) aimed at trying to reach a bipartisan agreement to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system.

Representatives speak out at the health care summit

I even have one constituent -- you will not believe this, and I know you won't, but it's true -- her sister died. This poor woman had no dentures. She wore her dead sister's teeth, which of course were uncomfortable and did not fit.

— Remarks made by Representative Louise Slaughter (D-NY.) at a White House summit (Feb. 25, 2010) aimed at trying to reach a bipartisan agreement to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system.

Gingrich is not a fan of Obama's ideas

By any standard of government control of the economy, he is a socialist. That doesn’t mean he is evil. He just has dumb ideas.

— Former U.S. speaker of the house Newt Gingrich in Atlanta at the Georgia Republican Party’s President’s Day Dinner held Feb. 24, 1010.

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