Yesterday's senate meeting also had robust debate on the appropriations bill to allow the government to pay over 200 million dollars of compensation to the Ashcroft Alliance. That large draw down made the debate spirited:..
Hon. Mark Lizarraga, Business Senator
"We the tax payers have been burden once again with 245 million dollars that was not necessary due to egotistical and over confident negotiating and issuing of blank cheques on our behalf."
Hon. Valerie Woods, PUP Senator
"It didn't need to be this messy. It could have all been avoided if back then the government just did what is seems to have taken them 7 years to realize. When you ceased somebody's property, you got to compensate them for it. So now, it's costing us far more than is needed, far more than what it's worth."
Hon. Godwin Hulse, Leader of government business
"This is one supplementary that I would want to say no to. This is the most downright, dirty, despicable, agreement one could ever imagine and cotenant and whenever I hear the accommodation agreement I get goose pimples. 19 million dollars' worth of property were sold 
to BTL. 19 million dollars of property is now costing us 235 million dollars. That's the value of the sweetener and that's the sin to this country and that is the corruption and that is the mess and if it had gone on without we acquire BTL, it would have wound up by 2025 at 470 million dollars in sweetener for 19 million dollars' worth of property. So you know some trick was in there. What was the trick? That properties did not exist."
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