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Defend America on Saturday, November 21, 2009 9:39:24 PM
Landrieu to Vote to Begin Debate
Nov. 21, 2009, 1:08 p.m.
By Emily Pierce
Roll Call Staff
Updated: 2:40 p.m.
Sen. Mary
Landrieu (D-La.) announced on the floor Saturday that she would vote to
kill a GOP-led filibuster designed to prevent a major health care
overhaul from coming up for debate.
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To help secure
her vote, Reid also included a provision in the bill sought by Landrieu
to provide increased Medicaid funds for states recovering from major
disasters such as 2005’s Hurricane Katrina that devastated New Orleans
and parts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
Landrieu
defended the inclusion of the provision and said Republican critics who
accuse her of selling her vote for $100 million are wrong and that she
has the support of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) and Health and Human
Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
“I will correct
something. It’s not $100 million, it’s $300 million, and I’m proud of
it and will keep fighting for it,” Landrieu told reporters after her
floor speech. “But that is not why I started this health care debate; I
started this health care debate for all the reasons I just mentioned in
my statement” on the floor.
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