Retiring Sen. Richard Shelby Slips $656 Million Worth of Earmarks into $1.7 Trillion Omnibus

Breitbart ^ | 12/20/2022 | Sean Moran

[ChicagoConservative27]

Outgoing Senate Appropriations Committee Vice Chair Richard Shelby (R-AL) slipped $656 million worth of earmarks into the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill.

Congressional leaders dropped the $1.7 trillion, 4,155-page omnibus spending bill at 1:30 a.m. ET, giving lawmakers little time to digest the implications of the mammoth legislation.

While the bill may have many major reforms that are readily apparent, lawmakers also slipped hard-to-find earmarks into the bill. Many lawmakers, such as Shelby, are retiring and face few political repercussions for pushing a bill that contains many special interest carveouts and increases the deficit.

[ChicagoConservative27]

What a complete piece of BEEP

[blackdog]

Sharpee wide chisel point marker. Every public toilet needs to be honored as a “Senator Richard Shelby” federal commode.

[gathersnomoss]

What a complete Dick, stealing other peoples hard earned money.

When will people lesrn to never ever trust a POS politicians.

[Tommy Revolts]

C’mon, we all want to go home for the Christmas Holiday.

[nwrep]

Shelby used to be a Democrat back in the 1990s.

[FlyingEagle]

http://www.onetrilliondollars.us/#:~:text=What%20is%20a%20trillion%20dollars%3F%20Well%2C%20it%27s,a%20million%20million.%20It%27s%20a%20thousand%20billion.

How big is a Trillion. Interesting graphic.

[blackdog]

Expensive these holidays are getting.

[Amendment10]

The Congressional Budget Office needs to be required by law to publicly announce within 24 hours if Congress is spending for anything that it cannot reasonably justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.

"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

Lawmakers also need to be required to pass a drug test before being allowed to vote on an appropriations bill imo.

[higgmeister]

Here in the South, Almost all Republicans started out as Democrats.   The Republicans earlier than that were transplants from Northern or Mid-Western states.

[TakebackGOP]

That’s your legacy Shelby.

[dfwgator]

Voters love Pork.

[Mr. K]

I never thought I would miss baseline-budgeting.

[skinny old man]

The parasites have no sense of right and wrong...

[Reily]

That’s why these yokes stay in office well past their sell by date!

Repeal the 17th Amendment!
State legislatures couldn’t do worse!

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Richard Shelby GOPees all over Alabama.

[skinny old man]

Went to DC with the clothes on their backs,leave multi millionaires

[skinny old man]

Went to DC with the clothes on their backs,leave multi millionaires

[MrRelevant]

These people are scum. They know this is bad for the nation but they dont care.

[From The Deer Stand]

This makes my blood boil. End earmarks!

[Jemian]

Ping to the state list.