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Jack Kingston: I have to ask my friends who have spoken before me: If the bill is as good as you say it is, why are any of these bribes…

On the recordMarch 21, 2010
I have to ask my friends who have spoken before me: If the bill is as good as you say it is, why are any of these bribes in the bill to begin with? The President said, January 25, ``It is an ugly process, and it looks like there are a bunch of backroom deals.'' And here is something that does not come out in the reconciliation process: $7.5 million to Hawaii, page 2,132. Libby, Montana 2,222, something about biohazard. Frontier States, $2 billion, page 2,238. And it goes on. The Louisiana purchase. None of this comes out in reconciliation.
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Jack Kingston
Georgia
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govinfo.gov
Mar 21, 2010

Editor's note · Context

The speaker questions the integrity of a bill containing what he describes as bribes.

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