Posted on 02/28/2009 2:58:53 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
President Obama and top members of his administration appear to be sponsoring hundreds of millions of dollars of earmarks in the 2009 budget that Obama is trying to push through Congress, CQPolitics.com reports.
In the congressional report that accompanies the budget legislation, Obama is listed as a sponsor of a $7.7 million earmark for “Tribally Controlled Postsecondary Vocational Institutions.” Obama’s co-sponsors on that earmark include Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
President Obama pledged to fight the addition of pork-barrel earmarks to legislation during the presidential campaign. Last April, for example, Obama released a statement stating: "We can no longer accept a process that doles out earmarks based on a member of Congress' seniority, rather than the merit of the project."
White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, Biden, Clinton, and three other Cabinet secretaries who served in Congress last year are listed as sponsors or co-sponsors of hundreds of millions of dollars of earmarks attached to the spending bill.
The House approved the $410 billion omnibus budget measure Wednesday, sending it on to the Senate.
According to CQPolitics.com, Senate staffers say Obama’s name will be removed as a sponsor. It is not clear if Obama will insist that his cabinet officers withdraw their earmark requests, however.
Other earmarks traced back to members of the Obama administration:
* Vice President Joe Biden, who asked for $94.9 million in set-asides before assuming his new office. He is a co-sponsor of those expenditure requests.
* Interior Secretary Ken Salazar was the lone sponsor on $5.4 million of earmarks in the budget bill. Including the earmarks he supported as a secondary sponsor, he’s linked to $227.4 million of earmarks.
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We’ll let this bill go but “FROM NOW ON”.........
Give me a freakin’ break..........
“Tribally Controlled Postsecondary Vocational Institutions.”
WTF!!!
My, my, what big earmarks you have, President Obama.
LOL!
““Tribally Controlled Postsecondary Vocational Institutions.””
Must be for the Ward Churchill School of Tolerance.
Somebody isn’t scrubbing the names fast enough.
That's Indian Refrigerator Repair School.
Why don’t they just give grants to ITT Technical college? Oh, wait, then big wigs don’t get bought off.
Obambi is a lying sack of sh!t! He says these new spending bills have no pork in them when in point of fact THAT IS ALL THAT IS IN THEM!
Obambi is such a big fat lying sack of sh!t that he makes Bill Clinton look like Honest Abe by comparison!
Read very carefully. Obama is saying he will decide what has merit and what does not in pork projects.
My exact thoughts!
Hanging stages and Guillotines need to be constructed on the Mall and kept in readiness....
The hangings and chopping have been delayed far too long.
Muslims live in what could be considered tribes...
Mr. BO brings slavery to my death and to my grandkids futures. He is one sick minded SOB
Obambi will make slaves of us all to unsustainable huge government.
Seems to be the agenda.
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