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Paul Ryan, in 2009, when asked if Republicans were being genuine in their complaint that the Affordable Care Act bill was moving too quickly:

Well, yes. I don’t think we should pass bills that we haven’t read that we don’t know what they cost. I mean, I don’t think that’s being [obstructionist]. I’ve already proposed other legislation. A number of Republicans are proposing alternatives. You can look at the Patients’ Choice Act on my Facebook page, and you’ll see there are many proposals that we have put out there that say: ‘Let’s get everybody insured. Let’s get everybody insured who has pre-existing conditions.’You can do this without the government taking it over, without all these new taxes and new spending programs. And so we want to see health care reform done, but we want to do it right. And if you rush this thing through before anybody even knows what it is, that’s not good democracy. That’s not doing work for our constituents. What’s wrong with going home for August, having town hall meetings, listening to our constituents and then coming back in September and doing this right?