{"id":1490,"date":"2009-12-26T09:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-26T16:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/26\/christopher-dodd-corruption-without-embarassment\/"},"modified":"2009-12-22T23:07:15","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T06:07:15","slug":"christopher-dodd-corruption-without-embarassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/26\/christopher-dodd-corruption-without-embarassment\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Dodd — Corruption without embarassment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once again, we have Chris Dodd trying to cement his place with the voters by bringing home the bacon.<\/a><\/p>\n

A $100 million item for construction of a university hospital was inserted in the Senate health care bill at the request of Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., who faces a difficult re-election campaign, his office said Sunday night.<\/p>\n

The legislation leaves it up to the Health and Human Services Department to decide where the money should be spent, although spokesman Bryan DeAngelis said Dodd hopes to claim it for the University of Connecticut.<\/p>\n

The provision is included in a 383-page series of changes to the health care bill that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., outlined Saturday. Scattered throughout are numerous items sought by individual lawmakers, many of them directing money explicitly to programs or projects in their home states.<\/p>\n

The one sought by Dodd provides $100 million for “a health care facility that provides research, inpatient tertiary care, or outpatient clinical services.” It must be affiliated with an academic health center at a public research university in the United States “that contains a State’s sole public academic medical and dental school.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This health care bill is so laden with sweetheart deals and outright corruption in the form of direct vote buying that it may set a new high for sheer quantity and brazenness.<\/p>\n

I’m sure that Connecticut needs a new hospital worse than anywhere else in the USA.<\/p>\n

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