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Senator Who Criticized Sebelius...Asked For Private Funds While Serving In Bush Administration
Senator Who Criticized Sebelius For Soliciting Donations Asked For Private Funds While Serving In Bush Administration
By Igor Volsky
A top Senate Republican who compared the Obama administration’s efforts to solicit private donations for a campaign encouraging Americans to enroll in the Affordable Care Act to the Iran-Contra scandal asked for private donations to fund education reform while serving in the George H. W. Bush administration.
On Saturday, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) criticized Sebelius for asking businesses and other community organizations to support an enrollment campaign spearheaded by Enroll America, a nonprofit organization working to convince people to sigh up for health care coverage. Alexander said Sebelius’ actions should “cease immediately and should be fully investigated by Congress.”
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But in 1991, while serving as Secretary of Education for President George H. W. Bush, Lamar actively and enthusiastically sought private dollars to fund the administration’s education initiative, America 2000...Alexander crisscrossed the country to sell the initiative on behalf of the administration after Congress failed to approve Bush’s education funding request. The president announced the formation of the nonprofit New American Schools Development Corp. and tasked it with raising $200 million to design new school models that communities can adopt, even planning a special meeting with businesses at Camp David to drum up support for more donations.
“Funds are pouring in — I don’t want to say ‘pouring,’ because we’re going to put the arm on you all on in a minute here — but funds are coming in well,” Bush said at the White House in July of 1991. “(A)lready $30 million has been raised, much of it from the corporations that are represented here today,” he added.
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http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/05/13/2003531/senator-who-criticized-sebelius-for-soliciting-donations-asked-for-private-funds-while-serving-in-bush-administration/
By Igor Volsky
A top Senate Republican who compared the Obama administration’s efforts to solicit private donations for a campaign encouraging Americans to enroll in the Affordable Care Act to the Iran-Contra scandal asked for private donations to fund education reform while serving in the George H. W. Bush administration.
On Saturday, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) criticized Sebelius for asking businesses and other community organizations to support an enrollment campaign spearheaded by Enroll America, a nonprofit organization working to convince people to sigh up for health care coverage. Alexander said Sebelius’ actions should “cease immediately and should be fully investigated by Congress.”
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But in 1991, while serving as Secretary of Education for President George H. W. Bush, Lamar actively and enthusiastically sought private dollars to fund the administration’s education initiative, America 2000...Alexander crisscrossed the country to sell the initiative on behalf of the administration after Congress failed to approve Bush’s education funding request. The president announced the formation of the nonprofit New American Schools Development Corp. and tasked it with raising $200 million to design new school models that communities can adopt, even planning a special meeting with businesses at Camp David to drum up support for more donations.
“Funds are pouring in — I don’t want to say ‘pouring,’ because we’re going to put the arm on you all on in a minute here — but funds are coming in well,” Bush said at the White House in July of 1991. “(A)lready $30 million has been raised, much of it from the corporations that are represented here today,” he added.
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http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/05/13/2003531/senator-who-criticized-sebelius-for-soliciting-donations-asked-for-private-funds-while-serving-in-bush-administration/
Three things:
- The comparison is moronic.
- Sebelius is actually complying with a law in her actions.
- Oops! LOL!
Senator Suggests Efforts To Implement Obamacare Are ‘Illegal,’ Like Iran-Contra
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022833749
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