I money going to it. There were proposed amendments in the committee today to divert specific amounts of money to universities. There are many needs out there in this tight budget year. When I wrote a couple of weeks ago about the political power of the farmers I wasn't joking.
Farmers are down there every day at the legislature.
It has been very hard for many Democratic legislators to even support this compromise. The other political wild card in this is the fact that there are a number of Democrats who do not support this bill. This means that there is NOT a guarantee that this bill will pass the House. This will mean that the tobacco money will have to be allocated along with the rest of the appropriations process and it may mean that health gets no money at all. Folks, it is not pretty for health right now.