[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6072]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       ELIMINATE SWEETHEART DEALS

  (Mr. BUCHANAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. BUCHANAN. Mr. Speaker, I introduced a bill that would eliminate 
sweetheart deals. Recently, the current health care bill that got 
passed, I know in my area, in my town hall meetings, talking to a lot 
of Americans, people are concerned about the health care bill that just 
passed, but they are outraged about the sweetheart deals.
  What do I mean? The $300 million that went to the Louisiana purchase, 
$100 million that went to a hospital in Connecticut. People are 
outraged because they feel it is their money, it is their taxpayer 
money, and they are very concerned about it. They feel it is buying 
votes.
  And that's the reason I think we have such a low approval rating in 
this country, because they view it as backroom deals, secret deals. 
This bill will eliminate all the sweetheart deals that are in this 
bill.
  I ask my colleagues to join me in eliminating sweetheart deals in the 
current health care legislation.

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