Barbour and Pawlenty attack Landrieu in dispute over Obama Medicaid expansion

The Daily Caller - 1st Mar 2010

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Republican Association: Two prominent Republican Governors on Tuesday plan to go after Sen. Mary Landrieu, Louisiana Democrat, in an attempt to criticize President Obama's Health-care bill and also highlight what they say is a piling of unfunded mandates onto states. Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, chairman of the Republican Governors Association (RGA), and Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, RGA vice-chair and a potential Republican candidate for president in 2012, will argue that Landrieu has admitted that states will be...

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