It is hard to think when this bill was written by my friends on the other side of the aisle, if my colleagues remember, during the debate on that, they started the debate at midnight. The vote was cast at 3 in the morning, not finished until 6 in the morning, so they could twist enough arms and do enough drug company contributions to get it through, it is hard to think that seniors were ever in the calculation. It was about the drug industry and the insurance industry.
Sherrod Brown: “It is hard to think when this bill was written by my friends on the other side of the aisle, if my colleagues remember…”
On the recordMay 5, 2004
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Criticizing the process and motivations behind a bill related to drug and insurance industries.
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