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<blockquote data-quote="DriveInDriѵeOut" data-source="post: 2819906" data-attributes="member: 44954">You&#039;ve gotta give this guy a little credit, at least he admits that he&#039;s a completely incompetent maroon.<a href="http://fusion.kinja.com/gop-congressman-admits-he-didnt-even-read-the-monstrous-1794949121" target="_blank">GOP Congressman Admits He Didn&#039;t Even Read The Monstrous Health Care Bill He Just Voted For</a>“I will fully admit, Wolf, I did not [read the bill],” an amazingly straight-faced Collins blurted, when pressed by Blitzer on whether he’d done the most basic due diligence his job requires. Instead, Collins explained, “I can assure you, my staff did.”It seems, however, that Collins’ staff probably could have done a better job telling their boss what he was actually voting for. In an <a href="http://buffalonews.com/2017/05/04/collins-says-didnt-read-health-bill-proves/" target="_blank">interview with his district’s Buffalo News paper</a>, a reporter pointed out to Collins that under the legislation he’d approved, New York stood to lose $3 billion in federal funding providing aid to hundreds of thousands of people.“Explain that to me,” Collins insisted. And, once the reporter pointed out that New York was one of two states participating in Obamacare’s optional <a href="http://khn.org/news/n-y-minn-opt-for-low-cost-plans-to-help-some-residents-afford-coverage/" target="_blank">Essential Health Plan</a>—a low cost insurance option for some who are unable to qualify for Medicaid—Collins answered that he didn’t even know the program’s funding was at risk.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DriveInDriѵeOut, post: 2819906, member: 44954"] You've gotta give this guy a little credit, at least he admits that he's a completely incompetent maroon. [URL='http://fusion.kinja.com/gop-congressman-admits-he-didnt-even-read-the-monstrous-1794949121']GOP Congressman Admits He Didn't Even Read The Monstrous Health Care Bill He Just Voted For[/URL] “I will fully admit, Wolf, I did not [read the bill],” an amazingly straight-faced Collins blurted, when pressed by Blitzer on whether he’d done the most basic due diligence his job requires. Instead, Collins explained, “I can assure you, my staff did.” It seems, however, that Collins’ staff probably could have done a better job telling their boss what he was actually voting for. In an [URL='http://buffalonews.com/2017/05/04/collins-says-didnt-read-health-bill-proves/']interview with his district’s [I]Buffalo News[/I] paper[/URL], a reporter pointed out to Collins that under the legislation he’d approved, New York stood to lose $3 billion in federal funding providing aid to hundreds of thousands of people. [B]“Explain that to me,” Collins insisted.[/B] And, once the reporter pointed out that New York was one of two states participating in Obamacare’s optional [URL='http://khn.org/news/n-y-minn-opt-for-low-cost-plans-to-help-some-residents-afford-coverage/']Essential Health Plan[/URL]—a low cost insurance option for some who are unable to qualify for Medicaid—Collins answered that he didn’t even know the program’s funding was at risk. [/QUOTE]

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