Payoffs for Senate's Health Care Bill
Politics went into high gear this week when 60 necessary votes for the U.S. Senate's health care bill were secured after granting special concessions and payoffs to certain states. Some senators defended these tactics, saying that "payoffs are nothing unusual"; and that this is "the nature of a democracy" and "part of the normal legislative process." But what exactly were these payoffs, and how does God look at this kind of political maneuvering?
