[k2blader]

Any (R) who votes together with the likes of Hillary, Kennedy, and Schumer deserves major heat.

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00179

[goldstategop]

So he voted with Specter. We can give him a pass since he's in for a tough re-election battle next year.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[Renegade]

How soon we forget ! I live on the coastal plain his idea of privatizing the weather service runs against my grain .


Overcast in Pennsylvania
The NY Times ^ | 050405 | N/A

Posted on 06/04/2005 8:18:06 AM PDT by Archangelsk

Far from just talking about the weather, Senator Rick Santorum is doing something dank and cloudy about it: he is proposing to squelch the National Weather Service's growing role in the information age.

-snip-

But Mr. Santorum, the No. 3 Republican in the Senate, has introduced legislation that would basically require the service to give much of its data only to those private weather forecasting companies. A dozen of those businesses happen to be located in Mr. Santorum's home state, Pennsylvania.

"It's not an easy prospect for a business to attract advertisers, subscribers or investors when the government is providing similar products for free," the senator said, somehow overlooking that taxpayers finance this round-the-clock national resource in the first place.