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Subject: GOP Senator against healthcare and earmarks got $960,000 healthcare earmark
Written By: ChuckyG on 11/15/10 at 4:08 pm
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A GOP senator who voted against the Democrats' sweeping health care bill quietly got a healthcare stimulus of his own: $960,000 doled out to the University of Nevada for a Primary Care Residency Expansion program.
What's more, the senator, Republican John Ensign of Nevada, has also joined about a dozen Republican senators in a crusade to end earmarks in the federal budget.
as a GOP senator in Nevada I'm sure he could burn taxpayer money to heat his home and he'd still get re-elected for being fiscally conservative.
Subject: Re: GOP Senator against healthcare and earmarks got $960,000 healthcare earmark
Written By: MaxwellSmart on 11/15/10 at 10:30 pm
Well...it's like Roe v. Wade. If they overturn it, they've lost a great wedge issue.
Everybody's against "pork" in the other guy's district!
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