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W. Todd Akin: When you start talking about what you're saying, the American public does not like these special deals--and special…

On the recordFebruary 24, 2010
When you start talking about what you're saying, the American public does not like these special deals--and special deals a lot of times happen in the darkness, in little dark corners, like the kind of places where cockroaches breed. And these special deals, people aren't real proud of them. And so they're done behind closed doors. They're done when people can't see it. And when they get all put together in a great big piece of legislation, those special deals are rolled out in a big hurry. Hurry up and look at it so that we can pass it before anybody reads it too closely because sometimes they're disguised in little ways so you won't see them. So the public, they're starting to get wise to this. The idea is that if the public sees more of this health care bill they'll like it. No. If you see something that's ugly, the more you look at it, the uglier it's going to get. And when you put all of these special deals in it, then people have a tendency to want to bring it out in a hurry and don't bother to look at it too closely.
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W. Todd Akin
Missouri
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Feb 24, 2010

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The speaker criticizes the practice of including special deals in legislation without public scrutiny.

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