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 WASHINGTON (AP) - Called a prostitute by conservative talk show hosts, a Louisiana Democrat on Thursday defended a deal she cut for her Hurricane Katrina-ravaged state in the Senate health care bill.
Sen. Mary Landrieu insisted the Medicaid boost worth $300 million wasn't in exchange for her vote for President Barack Obama's sweeping health care plan and she noted that Louisiana Republicans backed the deal. Defiantly, she said she would do it all over again if she had to.
"I don't need this job badly enough — maybe some people do, I don't — to throw the people of my state under the bus to protect myself politically," Landrieu said in an impassioned speech on the Senate floor.
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