“There are 100 senators here and I don’t know that there’s a senator that doesn’t have something in this bill that isn’t important to them,” Reid said. “If they don’t have something in it important to them then it doesn’t speak well of them.”In other words, if your Senator didn't cut a sweetheart deal like Ben Nelson, your state got screwed because after all the whole purpose for the Senate is to trade billions in tax dollars for votes.
He likened the legislation to the defense bill, which is thick with earmarks and other provisions benefitting individual members and even private corporations.
“That’s what legislations all about,” Reid said of the compromises
At least he admitted it.
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