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from Congress to consider spending bills calling for 2008 U.S. combat withdraw from Iraq

The bill is loaded with billions of dollars in earmarks, seemingly included to help attract undecided members. These include:

$25 million for spinach growers hurt by the 2006 E. coli outbreak
$75 million for peanut storage in Georgia
$2.9 billion for Gulf Coast hurricane recovery, including $1.3 billion for New Orleans levee repairs
$500 million for wildfire suppression
$120 million for shrimp and Atlantic menhaden fishermen
$4 billion for farmers who have suffered weather-related losses

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from Democrats add non-military spending, pork to troop funding bill

The supplemental spending bill includes more than $3.7 billion in farm subsidies, $2.9 billion in additional Gulf Coast hurricane relief and $2.4 billion for social programs such as money for rural Northwest school districts, health insurance for poor children, energy assistance for poor families and others.

I don't think any of that is needed except perhaps the 500 million for wildfire suppression and truthfully not even sure of that. Peanuts, spinich??? What is federal government getting involved in that. Why is this money going to Red States. Are the Republicans behind this?????