Okay....I agree that Paul voted for a bill that cut PBS but had some bad stuff in it and yes he could have voted against the whole thing. Happy now? BTW, how about that Aristide thing. In your view, what's worse? Voting for a bill to cut, not abolish, PBS or supporting putting a thug like Aristide back in power. Now...that I've answered your question please respond in kind.
1)Aristide took office on February 7, 1991, becoming Haiti’s first democratically elected leader. The previous election held by the military dictatorship of Leslie Manigat was not democratic.
2) Raoul Cédras seized power in a coup September 30, 1991. There was a large-scale exodus of boat people after Aristide was overthrown. Tens of thousands attempted to flee the Cedras regime, the United States denied refugee status to these boat people.
Fred signed this 10 days (Oct 10th 1991) after a coup of someone democratically elected, where Haitians fears Cedras more and were willing to invade our country.
..but I’m sure you Paul Supporters would have been glad to leave Cedras in power.. sure Aristide was a POS, but Cedras was 100 times worse.
Oh, and according to Fox (lobbying firm), all of this lobbying Thompson made consisted of one phone call to discuss the embargo, nothing else.
But you knew all this because you were one of the early people to bring up this here, of which you were smacked down each time..
I’ll just put you down as supporting Cedras.
BTW...funding for PBS is certainly unconstitutional...but I don't think that is what people are talking about when they mention pork
On the Jobs and Economic Growth bill of 02...I looked through the full text of the bill...I may have missed it but I did not see any pork.