On the recordMarch 16, 2010
It will contain Gator Aid. It apparently contains $100 million for a local hospital in Connecticut that Chris Dodd got in. It contains $1.1 billion for Medicaid in Vermont and Massachusetts. I guess not Arizona or Texas. Our States didn't get that deal, right? No, just those States got the deals because Dodd or Sanders and Kerry got them in, right? It contains, I like this one, $1 billion that Senator Bob Menendez got in for New Jersey drug companies. Pretty good deal. I am not sure I would want to vote for that. My constituents might say, well, Congressman, why didn't you get a billion dollars for some companies in Arizona? It contains $1 billion for Menendez. We are talking serious money when you go to John Kerry and Debbie Stabenow. They got in $5 billion for union health care plans in Massachusetts and Michigan. You already talked about the provision, the Florida Gator Aid, I guess, Medicare Advantage. I will tell you this is one that my constituents find offensive. Arizona has lots of people on Medicare Advantage. Apparently Senator Bill Nelson of Florida got in a provision saying Medicare Advantage won't be cut in Florida. I don't know how I go home and explain to my Arizona colleagues that it will be cut in Arizona.
