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On the recordMarch 11, 2010
If that bill solved that one thing, if it just said to the average American who doesn't get employer-provided insurance, we will let you buy it tax free, like the people who get it from their employer, we would solve a huge amount of the problem of uninsured Americans who can't get care. But it doesn't do that. Let's talk about what it does do, because I only went through some of them. Let's talk about how this is the cleanest, most ethical Congress in history, and how we have change you can believe in. Well, here are some of the things you can believe in. The bill has $1 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal in an article published on October 15, called ``States of Personal Privilege.'' This article says that there is $1 billion in the bill to assist New Jersey's biotech companies, and they get that subsidy, put in there, according to the article, by Senator Bob Menendez, Democrat from New Jersey. Apparently he didn't think it was a particularly good bill, not good enough until he got $1 billion in there for drug company research, at least according to The Wall Street Journal, one more special deal. But wait, there is more.…
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John Shadegg
Arizona
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Mar 11, 2010

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The speaker critiques a bill regarding healthcare and special interests in Congress.

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