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  • During a time of huge deficits, spending bill shouldn't be filled with pork

    12/09/2003 9:25:01 PM PST · by Holly_P · 2 replies · 184+ views
    The Daily Sentinel ^ | 12/09/03 | Editorial
    Republican House Majority Leader Tom DeLay calls his party's $373 billion spending bill "worthy of the national challenges it meets." Republican House Appropriations Committee Chairman Bill Young says it's "the best product we could provide.” Democratic Rep. David Obey says it's not only "a bad bill" but "a gratuitous insult to every worker entitled to overtime pay." The president of the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste, Tom Schatz says not only are the Republicans three months behind in presenting the bill, they've apparently spent the time to "pile on the pork." DeLay says the bill is an "achievement in...