red states rule
03-01-2009, 09:36 AM
Here we goes folks. Look how your tax money is being spent
$200,000 for “Tattoo Removal Violence Prevention Outreach Program,”
Maine lobster earmark in the omnibus (Virgil should love this one)
$5.8 million earmark for the “Ted Kennedy Institute for the Senate…for the planning and design of a building & an endowment,”
and National Council of La Raza, $473,000 earmark from Sens. Bingaman and Menendez
and I thought Obama promised NO EARMARKS AND PORK
Earmark reform? 2009 spending bill contains 9,000 of them
By WILLIAM DOUGLAS AND DAVID LIGHTMAN
McClatchy Newspapers
During the 2008 presidential campaign, candidates Barack Obama and John McCain fought vigorously over who would be toughest on congressional earmarks.
"We need earmark reform," Obama said in September during a presidential debate in Oxford, Miss. "And when I'm president, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely."
President Obama should prepare to carve out a lot of free time and keep the coffee hot this week as Congress prepares to unveil a $410 billion omnibus spending bill that's riddled with thousands of earmarks, despite his calls for restraint and efforts on Capitol Hill to curtail the practice.
The bill will contain about 9,000 earmarks totaling $5 billion, congressional officials say. Many of the earmarks - loosely defined as local projects inserted by members of Congress - were inserted last year as the spending bills worked their way through various committees.
http://www.kansascity.com/440/story/1047771.html
$200,000 for “Tattoo Removal Violence Prevention Outreach Program,”
Maine lobster earmark in the omnibus (Virgil should love this one)
$5.8 million earmark for the “Ted Kennedy Institute for the Senate…for the planning and design of a building & an endowment,”
and National Council of La Raza, $473,000 earmark from Sens. Bingaman and Menendez
and I thought Obama promised NO EARMARKS AND PORK
Earmark reform? 2009 spending bill contains 9,000 of them
By WILLIAM DOUGLAS AND DAVID LIGHTMAN
McClatchy Newspapers
During the 2008 presidential campaign, candidates Barack Obama and John McCain fought vigorously over who would be toughest on congressional earmarks.
"We need earmark reform," Obama said in September during a presidential debate in Oxford, Miss. "And when I'm president, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely."
President Obama should prepare to carve out a lot of free time and keep the coffee hot this week as Congress prepares to unveil a $410 billion omnibus spending bill that's riddled with thousands of earmarks, despite his calls for restraint and efforts on Capitol Hill to curtail the practice.
The bill will contain about 9,000 earmarks totaling $5 billion, congressional officials say. Many of the earmarks - loosely defined as local projects inserted by members of Congress - were inserted last year as the spending bills worked their way through various committees.
http://www.kansascity.com/440/story/1047771.html