After successfully including a provision that could be worth more than $100 million in federal aid to shore up a Medicaid shortfall, U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu joined fellow Democrats Saturday in voting to begin full debate on major health care legislation in the Senate. Louisiana’s Medicaid program will be cut in 2011 because the state’s per capita income increased temporarily in the post-Katrina construction boom, and those numbers were used to determine how much federal money the state will get for Medicaid, which provides health care to the poor. The health care reform issue is expected to be hotly debated at least through the end of the year. The New York Times reported Saturday:
Two reluctant Democratic senators, Mary L. Landrieu of Louisiana and Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, warned that their support for a motion to open debate did not guarantee that they would ultimately vote for the bill. Their remarks echoed previous comments by several other senators, including Ben Nelson, Democrat of Nebraska, and Joseph I. Lieberman, independent of Connecticut.
Those comments made clear that more horse-trading lies ahead and that major changes might be required if the bill is to be approved. And it suggested that the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, who relied only on members aligned with his party to bring the bill to the floor, may yet have to sway one or more Republicans to his side to get the bill adopted.
... written by Plumpy , November 23, 2009 - 06:42 pm
Mary won Lotto !
... written by Keemosabi , November 23, 2009 - 07:28 pm
A bribe by any other name would smell just as sweet. What kind of girl is Mary? It is just a matter of price.
... written by NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN , November 23, 2009 - 08:22 pm
NO CHARGE'S-----------MARY, last seen pushin a Wheelbarrow "UP ESPLANADE TO DA "BANK". YEAH ?
... written by Eastexas Red , November 23, 2009 - 09:56 pm
I cannot believe the flagrant pride Landrieu has taken in accepting what in any other area - or third world country - would be called a bribe! Next, I guess we'll see our legislators rolling in the aisle fighting like we've witnessed other government assemblies in third world countries doing. I never thought I'd live to see the day that the USA came to this sort of criminal activity....
... written by NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN , November 24, 2009 - 01:11 am
EastTexas RED, YA ain't seen nuthin yet!
... written by northsidian , November 24, 2009 - 01:41 am
Not to worry!! Bobby Jindal will take credit for the 100 million anyway!!
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David Calhoun and Elizabeth “EB” Brooks are the first two employees of Lafayette Central Park Inc., the nonprofit charged with turning Lafayette Consolidated Government’s 100-acre Johnston Street Horse Farm property into a passive public park. Calhoun was named executive director, and Brooks is director of planning and design.
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A shelved ordinance transferring $200,000 from a northside drainage project to a south Lafayette development may not break any laws, but it stinks to high heaven.
An effort to restore a shuttered dancehall and document other vacant or razed honky-tonks could serve as a model for saving an endangered species of entertainment.
Lafayette’s gene pool has been host to a long line of eccentric characters who have blurred the lines between crazy, genius, disturbed and curiously entertaining.
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