Local indigent clinic,and How Barton is now taking credit for financing he opposed

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WASHINGTON – Rep. Joe Barton , who called last year's economic stimulus bill a "boondoggle," attended a groundbreaking this week for an expansion of an Ellis County clinic made possible under the law.

Hope Clinic in Waxahachie received a $250,000 grant from the Department of Health and Human Services for construction. The building will primarily be used to expand dental services.

"There were two pieces of legislation that helped bring this about," Joseph Gallegos, senior vice president of the National Association of Community Health Centers, said at Wednesday's groundbreaking. "Part of this was economic stimulus funding, and the other was in the Affordable Care Act."

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Barton voted against both the stimulus bill and this spring's health care reform legislation.

"As I told the crowd at the groundbreaking, I was opposed to the stimulus bill and voted against it. It has been largely wasteful and failed to produce the jobs that were promised," Barton, R-Arlington, said in a written statement. "However, expansion of the Hope Clinic is a worthy project that deserves our support."



That's my representative for ya.