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Uploaded by on Dec 24, 2009

Were left with party line votes in the middle of the night, a couple of sweetheart deals to get it over the finish line, and a public thats outraged.

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  • Thank you, Senator McConnell !!!

  • "The C-SPAN networks will commit the necessary resources to covering all of the sessions LIVE and in their entirety," Lamb wrote. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appeared to object to the premise behind the request. Sen. Barack Obama first pledged opening up legislative negotiations to C-SPAN cameras during a Democratic presidential primary debate with Sen. Hillary Clinton in Los Angeles on Jan. 31, 2008.

  • 1/8/10: Brian Lamb, the C-SPAN CEO, wrote to leaders in the House and Senate Dec. 30 urging them to open "all important negotiations, including any conference committee meetings," to televised coverage on C-SPAN, imploring Congress to open up the last leg of health care "reform" negotiations to the public, as some "top" Democrats lay plans to hash out the final product among themselves...

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  • There is no problem in the Senate that cannot be fixed if more Democrats are removed as members. There is no larger body of domestic terrorists than inhabits the Democrat Party.

  • Senator McConnell, this bill is immoral because it violates individual rights. This bill treats Americans as though they were whores. Americans are not whores. All of you in the Senate need to check your premises and reject this immoral bill.

  • Three states -- Pennsylvania, New York and Florida -- all got protections for their Medicare Advantage beneficiaries at a time when the program is facing cuts nationwide...

  • The Senators from Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming will get the "Frontier Freebie" -- they'll see an increase in Medicare payments to hospitals and doctors, because "at least 50 percent of their counties are frontier counties,' defined as those having a population density less than six people per square mile."

  • Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA), chairman of the Senate health committee, got a provision inserted to increase Medicare payments to certain "low-volume hospitals" in Grinnell, Keokuk and Spirit Lake, treating limited numbers of Medicare patients...

  • Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) was "persuaded" to drop his concerns after Senator Harry Reid offered his state a $10 billion grant for "community health centers" -- money that could easily be funneled to facilities that perform abortions...

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