Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) offered a vigorous defense Monday of the bribes in the Senate reform bill that benefit individual states, saying “it doesn’t speak well” of senators who didn’t take these bribes. 

“There are 100 senators here and I don’t know why every senator won't  put something in the bill for their state and themselves."  Reid said. “If they don’t have something in it important to them then they won't take a bribe, how do you expect me to get 60 votes to pass health care." "I can't it do on the merits of the bill so the only recourse is bribes.

He likened the legislation to the defense bill, which is thick with thousands of earmarks and other provisions benefiting individual members, Acorn and even private corporations.

 

Senator Harry Reid says reaching the compromise was not easy and not everyone was on board with this bill. Also, he admits that the first few days of working on the bill did not go well until we came up with the billions of dollars for bribes.

“That’s what legislations is all about,” Reid said of the bribes. “It’s the art of bribes."