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The final budget deal allows states to divert up to 15 percent of child-insurance funds to these other purposes.
In a Rose Garden appearance Wednesday, Clinton charged that Republicans are trying to "divert your attention" from "the American people and their families and their future."
As long as members of Congress continue to divert attention from the fact that money flows in at the same rate that favors flow out, the televised "fight" over their fund-raising methodologies will allow them to pretend they're reforming the system.
Unlike George W. Bush, McCain preaches fiscal conservatism, advocates universal health insurance, and refuses to divert public school funds to private voucher programs.
A staffer for McFarlane and Poindexter, Marine Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, developed a scheme to trade U.S. arms for hostages and divert the proceeds to the Contras to get around U.S. law.