Orrin Hatch: “I rise again to support the effort to call up and immediately adopt S. 2823, the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment…”

“I rise again to support the effort to call up and immediately adopt S. 2823, the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Modernization Act. It makes no sense that this product of bipartisan, bicameral effort should be held up at the eleventh hour by Members representing only two States... it makes even less sense for these holds to be placed on behalf of States that currently enjoy substantially generous funding. In some areas of these States, the funding is so generous that we have heard reports of Ryan White dollars being spent on dog-walking services, haircuts, candlelight dinners, and four-star hotels. I, for one, am pretty fed up with it, and to have four liberal Senators on this floor holding this up is just outrageous.”