Posted on 01/12/2013 12:01:16 PM PST by Olog-hai
Conservatives are taking aim at the pork-laden $50.7 billion Superstorm Sandy aid package that Northeastern governors and lawmakers hope to push through the House this coming week.
Too much of the aid will go to recovery efforts for past disasters and other projects unrelated to the late-October storm, they say.
The bill includes $150 million for what the Commerce Department described as fisheries disasters in places as far afield as Alaska and Mississippi, and $50 million in subsidies for replanting trees on private land damaged by wildfires. …
The objections have led senior House Republicans to assemble a $17 billion proposal, that when combined already approved money for flood insurance claims, is less than half what President Barack Obama sought and the Senate passed in December. …
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Why don’t they just publicly name each Congresscritter who adds pork to any bill.
Congressmen, and women are very crafy people...they are on to this. They agree with each other to submit/sponsor each others’ bills.
They might quit if they were held up to public ridicule. Who was that Congressman years ago who awarded the Golden Fleece Award every so often? We need another like him.
William Proxmire
Really? OK. Wasn’t their a journalist who did something similar? Anderson maybe?
They better add in that long overdue purple glittery unicorn barky promised me 4.5 years ago.
And well they should!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Proxmire’s GFA:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Fleece_Award
and SDCTA’s Golden Watchdog & Golden Fleece Award:
http://www.sdcta.org/Uploads/Documents/2012%20SDCTA%20Golden%20Awards%20Winners%205-18-12_2.pdf
This nightmare just compounds itself.
Really prohibits any hope. I don’t know how much longer I can take this.
Thank you. I had Proxmire and columnist Jack Anderson mixed up in my jumbled mind.
I've suggested that every bill have a full change history so you can see who added and voted for every single paragraph, sentence or even letter in a bill. And no "anonymous" changes by staffers. Every part of the bill must be linked to individual congressmen.
These criminals are less likely to commit their crimes if they know their fingerprints will be left behind.
A very good idea.
Attach names to the junk.
that would be like putting an intoxalyzer in a bar of college kids.
they’d be competing who could blow the highest number.
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