Earlier this year, the House included pandemic preparedness funding in the stimulus bill. But the Republicans later stripped a vast majority of these funds from the bill.
This forced health authorities to put off their chance to get pandemic funding.
The effort to strip pandemic funds seems to be the work of Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine). Usually, Collins is portrayed as a rare voice of GOP moderation, but - like the right-wing ideologues who dominate the party today - she brags on her own website of stripping the funds.
If Collins wants to look like a fool using her own site, that's her business. But when she and her right-wing colleagues pull funding from an essential health program just because they can, that affects all of us.
(Source: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/4/26/724827/-Republicans-Stripped-Pandemic-Flu-Preparedness-From-Stimulus)
Monday, April 27, 2009
GOP stripped flu funds from stimulus
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Tim, you know as well as I do the Democrats can get any spending bill they want passed. Pandemic preparedness had nothing to do with stimulated the economy. You should be questioning why Dems loaded up an already massive bill with unrelated agenda spending.
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