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Senate Passes Huge Spending Bill, Heads to Obama for Signature
FOX NEWS ^ | March 10, 2009 | staff

Posted on 03/10/2009 7:03:05 PM PDT by kellynla

WASHINGTON -- Congress on Tuesday cleared for President Obama's signature a $410 billion measure to fund the government, a measure denounced by most Republicans as an example of reckless spending.

The Senate approved the measure by voice after it cleared a key procedural hurdle by a 62-35 vote. Sixty votes were required to shut down debate.

Obama will sign the measure Wednesday, the White House said, but he will also announce steps aimed at curbing lawmakers' penchant for pet projects.

The $410 billion bill is chock-full of lawmakers' pet projects and significant increases in food aid for the poor, energy research and other programs. It was supposed to have been completed last fall.

The bill ran into an unexpected political hailstorm in Congress after Obama's spending-heavy economic stimulus bill and his 2010 budget plan forecasting a $1.8 trillion deficit for the current budget year. And Republicans seized on Obama's willingness to sign a bill packed with pet projects after he assailed them as a candidate.

"If it had not been for the stimulus and the budget proposal it might have been ... noncontroversial," said House GOP leader John Boehner of Ohio. "The stimulus bill riled an awful lot of people up. ... And then the budget proposal comes out."

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 111th; bho44; drunkensailors; federalspending; hopeychangey; oinkoink; pork; porkulus; sonofporkulus; stimulus; taxandspend; zeronomics
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1 posted on 03/10/2009 7:03:05 PM PDT by kellynla
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To: kellynla

In the darkness of night...
God help us!


2 posted on 03/10/2009 7:04:15 PM PDT by Knute
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To: kellynla

The screwing continues.


3 posted on 03/10/2009 7:04:22 PM PDT by Danae (Amerikan Unity My Ass)
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To: kellynla

Will anyone in the media ask Obama if he will live up to his “no earmarks” promise? What about his 5 days before signing non-emergency legislation? Will he wait 5 days on this for public comment?


4 posted on 03/10/2009 7:05:53 PM PDT by St. Louis Conservative
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To: Danae
I'm serious, they are trying to tank the economy. Emergency Supplies and Food
5 posted on 03/10/2009 7:05:54 PM PDT by Free America52 (I just want it to be the way it always has been.)
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To: Free America52

I wonder how Wall Street will react?


6 posted on 03/10/2009 7:09:10 PM PDT by joshhiggins
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To: kellynla

Lamar Alexander (R TN) voted for this? I just saw him speaking against excessive spending this afternoon. Snow I expected, why don’t the RePubs in Maine tear up her ticket? At least Graham finally came through on one.


7 posted on 03/10/2009 7:10:03 PM PDT by DHC-2
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To: kellynla

And Washington sings:

We pass earmarks
Yes we do
We love earmarks
Taxpayers, screw you.


8 posted on 03/10/2009 7:15:12 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: kellynla

re: he will also announce steps aimed at curbing lawmakers’ penchant for pet projects

Sort of like closing the barn door after the pigs are out.


9 posted on 03/10/2009 7:16:05 PM PDT by jwparkerjr (God Bless America!)
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To: DHC-2

Where do you find that Lamar voted yes?


10 posted on 03/10/2009 7:18:06 PM PDT by txrangerette (Just say "no" to the Obama Cult.)
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To: kellynla

Will Obama hold it for five days of review as he promised? See http://hesnotmypresident.wordpress.com/2009/02/15/make-president-obama-keep-his-campaign-promise/

Oh but he removed that promise from his campaign website!


11 posted on 03/10/2009 7:19:21 PM PDT by bvw
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To: kellynla

Anyone have the vote breakdown? Did Bayh and Feingold end up voting for it?


12 posted on 03/10/2009 7:19:46 PM PDT by jennyjenny
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To: Knute

Aint that the Truth. God, that pisses me off.


13 posted on 03/10/2009 7:20:18 PM PDT by GoCards
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To: joshhiggins
I wonder how Wall Street will react?

So far, the futures look relatively bright.

Dow Jones +15.00 6902.00

14 posted on 03/10/2009 7:20:44 PM PDT by Plutarch
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To: Danae

Doggy style.


15 posted on 03/10/2009 7:24:09 PM PDT by Sender (It's never too late to be who you could have been.)
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To: kellynla
***Obama will sign the measure Wednesday, the White House said, but he will also announce steps aimed at curbing lawmakers’ penchant for pet projects.***

Once again Obama is hedging his words. He said he would eliminate pork, not just “curbing” them. When Obama signs this current bill he automatically becomes a liar.

16 posted on 03/10/2009 7:24:10 PM PDT by tobyhill (Obama gets no free pass from Free Republic!)
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To: Harrius Magnus; mojitojoe; Pelham; mom2twinsn2; LongLiveTheRepublic; ConservativeOrBust; ...
The Peter Schiff/Redistribution Watch Ping. (Washington Bankrupting our Nation by Spending your past, present and future money!)

The one that gets me is the most is removal of the DC School voucher program that kicks two poor black kids out of Obama's daughters private school. That the liberal media can hide this is obscene. And Republicans need to get the two families in front of FNC cameras asking why would Obama do this?

17 posted on 03/10/2009 7:24:39 PM PDT by sickoflibs (Keynesian Eco 101 : "If you won't spend your money WE WILL, and your kid's too!")
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To: bvw

Thanks, I’ll need that.


18 posted on 03/10/2009 7:26:20 PM PDT by Hoodat (For the weapons of our warfare are mighty in God for pulling down strongholds.)
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To: DHC-2

Yeah, he did. I am glad Corker did not. He is my Senator


19 posted on 03/10/2009 7:27:15 PM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for Obma: One Bad Ass Mistake America)
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To: Knute
In the darkness of night... God help us!

It is the eve of a full moon after all. Eat, drink, and be merry, spend, spend, spend.

20 posted on 03/10/2009 7:27:54 PM PDT by Just mythoughts
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