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Pete Hoekstra: “Then they give us a 2,000-page health care bill, and it gets over to the Senate and they give the Senator from Louisiana…”

On the recordFebruary 3, 2010
Then they give us a 2,000-page health care bill, and it gets over to the Senate and they give the Senator from Louisiana $300 million.
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Pete Hoekstra
Michigan
Source
govinfo.gov
Feb 3, 2010

Editor's note · Context

The speaker is criticizing the health care bill and the political negotiations surrounding it.

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