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September 18, 2007
Bridge Repair Funding Bills
Lame excuse for massive pork barrel spending!
Posted by Tina Grazier
The newest transportation bills are chock full of oink!
"We consider it seed money for projects that were sought by home-state senators and local communities," said Alex Glass, a spokeswoman for U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., who chairs the committee that drafted the $104.6 billion transportation and housing bill. "We don't consider it to be an either/or choice."
The House version of the bill, passed before the Interstate 35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis on Aug. 1…with more than 1,400 earmarks worth nearly $2.2 billion.
The U.S. Senate bill does contain an extra $1 billion for bridge repair. But the amount set aside for pet transportation and community projects would be more than double that: In all, 843 new congressional "earmarks" totaling $2.5 billion.
Washington-based Club for Growth, which promotes economic freedom, recently analyzed 50 amendments offered this year to strip pork spending from bills.
Members of the GOP voted to strike waste a little less than half the time, 43 percent.
The average Democratic score was 2 percent, which means members of that party almost always supported wasteful spending.
Find the articles:
http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/091807/opi_200317123.shtml
http://www.postbulletin.com/newsmanager/templates/localnews_story.asp?a=308255&z=16
Please vote wisely in 2008
Posted by Post Scripts at September 18, 2007 11:09 PM
Comments
Earmarks aka Pork is normally so far outside the scope of federal priorities that it would never make it as a stand alone bill. Therefore all earmarks should be banned. Enough is enough...we are sick of the waste, fraud and abuse. NO MORE PORK SPENDING, NO MORE EXTORTION TO GET A PORK RIDER ON A GOOD BILL! ENOUGH!
If it's so worthy, then I say put it in as a bill by itself, otherwise forget it! STOP ALL PORK SPENDING.
Posted by: Jack at September 19, 2007 09:30 AM