Reps. want AG to join fight against health bill corruption

A group of House lawmakers have sent a letter to Attorney General Jack Conway urging him to challenge the federal legislation based on incentives offered to Senators of other states.

The letter, signed by 29 Kentucky lawmakers, including House Minority Floor Leader Jeff Hoover, R-Jamestown, states: "The special deals contained in the bill to win support from Senators in Louisiana and Nebraska is undemocratic and results in inequitable compromises that impact Kentucky taxpayers."

It calls on Conway to "join with Attorneys General from Alabama, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Michigan, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Washington state to call on the Senate to remove the special language from the health care reform legislation which is unconstitutional, expensive, and inequitable to Kentuckians who did not receive special breaks from the Senate."

Read the entire letter here.