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