SENATORS' EFFORT TO GET BUILDINGS NAMED AFTER SELVES -- FAILS

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SENATORS' EFFORT TO GET BUILDINGS NAMED AFTER SELVES -- FAILS

Senators Arlen Specter (R-PA) and Tom Harkin (D-IA) named buildings after THEMSELVES in the Labor-HHS Appropriations conference -- which they oversaw!

The 2006 Labor-HHS-Education Conference Report (109-300) names two new buildings at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) after the Chairman, Senator Arlen Specter, and Ranking Democratic Member, Senator Tom Harkin.

The building with the new visitors center would be named after Senator Harkin.

The Headquarters and Emergency Operations Center Building (Building 21) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was to be renamed as the Arlen Specter Headquarters and Emergency Operations Center.

But rule XXI of the House Rules for the 109th Congress states:

"6. It shall not be in order to consider a bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report that provides for the designation or redesignation of a public work in honor of an individual then serving as a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or Senator." (Source: [http://www.rules.house.gov/archives/21RXXI.htm]

Staffers on The Hill mocked the move as the latest example of egos completely out of control.

By late Thursday, the conference report went down in flames when the House voted down the request.

Congress will now have the opportunity to remove the vanity plates from the report when it reconvenes and revotes.

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[SDGOP]

Senatorial Arrogance at its finest

[corkoman]

makes me sick - spector and harkin. sheesh

[TomGuy]

VANITAS VANITATUM

by: John Webster

LL the flowers of the spring

Meet to perfume our burying;

These have but their growing prime,

And man does flourish but his time:

Survey our progress from our birth;

We are set, we grow, we turn to earth.

Courts adieu, and all delights,

All bewitching appetites!

Sweetest breath and clearest eye,

Like perfumes, go out and die;

And consequently this is done

As shadows wait upon the sun.

Vain ambition of kings

Who seek by trophies and dead things

To leave a living name behind,

And weave but nets to catch the wind.

'Vanitas Vanitatum' was originally published in the The Devil's Law-Case (1623).

[Sofa King]

I don't know- the "Arlen Spector Disease Building" seems appropriate to me.

[mewzilla]

The United States Senate. America's very own House of Lords.

I hope the Founding Fathers are spinning.

[Calico Cat]

"The Specter Building"--sounds like a haunted house!

[TomGuy]

I hope the Founding Fathers are spinning.

Yes. They should have written term limits for both Chambers into The Constitution when they had the change. Too many of the elected think it is their life-long profession.

[rawhide]

You would think these two long time senators and/or their staff would know the rules? Such ineptness and big egos!

[BatGuano]

Vanity of Vanity, all is vanity.

Remember, we are paying for their ego trip!!!

Stuff the entire congress as far as I am concerned,

[thoughtomator]

A schematic of the Specter-Harkin Federal Building:

[tillacum]

OH MY STARS...2 JERKS WITH EGOS BIGGER THAN THE MOON.

[Airborne1986]

They really should not exlude members of the House. Perhaps they could go with the The Barney Frank Men's Room.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

LOL!

[Dont Mention the War]

Learn from the master, you novices!

The Robert C. Byrd Biotechnology Science Center

The Robert C. Byrd Institute for Advanced Flexible Manufacturing

The Robert C. Byrd Locks and Dam

The Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope

Not pictured:

Robert C. Byrd Drive, from Beckley to Sophia (Byrd's hometown)

Robert C. Byrd National Technology Transfer Center at Wheeling Jesuit University

Robert C. Byrd Highway

Robert C. Byrd Federal Correctional Institution

Robert C. Byrd High School

Robert C. Byrd Freeway

Robert C. Byrd Center for Hospitality and Tourism

Robert C. Byrd Science Center

Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center of West Virginia

Robert C. Byrd Cancer Research Center

Robert C. Byrd Technology Center at Alderson-Broaddus College

Robert C. Byrd Hardwood Technologies Center, near Princeton

Robert C. Byrd addition to the lodge at Oglebay Park, Wheeling

Robert C. Byrd Community Center, Pine Grove

Robert C. Byrd Expressway, U.S. 52 near Weirton

Robert C. Byrd Institute in Charleston

Robert C. Byrd Visitor Center at Harpers Ferry National Historic Park

Robert C. Byrd Federal Courthouse

Robert C. Byrd Academic and Technology Center

Robert C. Byrd United Technical Center

Robert C. Byrd Federal Building (there are two)

Robert C. Byrd Hilltop Office Complex

Robert C. Byrd Library and Robert C. Byrd Learning Resource Center

Robert C. Byrd Rural Health Center

Robert C. Byrd Clinical Addition to the veteran's hospital in Huntington

Robert C. Byrd Industrial Park, Hardy County

Robert C. Byrd Community Center in the naval station, Sugar Grove

[Sofa King]

You forgot the Robert C. Byrd Bedsheet Outlet.

[NEPA]

Good one!

[Wil H]

But rule XXI of the House Rules for the 109th Congress states:

"6. It shall not be in order to consider a bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report that provides for the designation or redesignation of a public work in honor of an individual then serving as a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or Senator."

Then why is half of West Virginia named after Sheets Byrd?

[Bars4Bill]

HarkinDome

[maxwellp]

Disgusting!

[kenth]

If it meant that it was to be an emergency operation center dedicated to solely responding to Specter or Harkin's disastrous Senate business, I'd be all for it.