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Subject: Where's all the talk about the budget deficit????

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Oropan
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Date Posted: 08:45:09 07/18/07 Wed

I guess it doesn't have any importance now that the dums are in control?

July 17, 2007
Read More: Spending

What's in your wallet?

What's a paltry one million dollars to a member of Congress?

Well, apparently not enough to know if an organization about to receive that big block of cash actually exists.

Republican Rep. Jeff Flake of Arizona, the fiscal crusader who's never met an earmark he likes, questioned Democratic Rep. Peter J. Visclosky of Indiana on the House floor Tuesday about whether the Center for Instrumented Critical Infrastructure actually exists - since, hey, it's getting like a million bucks or something.

Visclosky, who chairs the spending subcommittee responsible for the project, had to admit that, well, he didn't have a clue.

After a lengthy back-and-forth, Flake, complaining that his staff couldn't find a website for the center, asked Visclosky, "Does the center currently exist?"

"At this time, I do not know," the Indiana Democrat replied. "But if it does not exist, the monies could not go to it."

And who could possibly be the sponsor of such an earmark? Yes, you guessed it, the man Republicans love to hate, Pennsylvania Democrat John P. Murtha.

Despite the money's uncertain destination, the House rejected Flake's measure to strike the funds, 326-98. And the Visclosky bill also sailed through, 312-112.

As I said, what's one million dollars to a member of Congress?

UPDATE: I failed to report last night that a certificate filed with the requested funds says the money is actually earmarked to Concurrent Technologies Corporation, a nonprofit technological consulting firm. A brief search of campaign finance records shows CTC President and CEO Daniel R. DeVos, of alternately Central City and Johnstown, Pa. has contributed $7,000 to Murtha's reelection campaign since April 2002.

By Patrick O'Connor 05:09 PM

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Yes it does have great importance . Bev 12:51:10 07/18/07 Wed

Better check the facts -- Oropan, 15:41:44 07/18/07 Wed

Heres where part of the money goes -- Bev, 21:43:14 07/18/07 Wed
where some more of it goes -- Bev, 21:45:02 07/18/07 Wed

Re: where some more of it goes -- Oropan, 05:43:55 07/19/07 Thu

The police depts all over the country said they did not have enough money -- Bev, 09:16:27 07/19/07 Thu

yep with bushie in charge everything is peachy keen . lololol -- Bev, 21:47:42 07/18/07 Wed

pfaw Stephen 14:28:08 07/24/07 Tue

Re: pfaw -- Oropan, 15:15:44 07/24/07 Tue

Subject	Author	Date
Yes it does have great importance .	Bev	12:51:10 07/18/07 Wed
Better check the facts -- Oropan, 15:41:44 07/18/07 Wed Heres where part of the money goes -- Bev, 21:43:14 07/18/07 Wed where some more of it goes -- Bev, 21:45:02 07/18/07 Wed Re: where some more of it goes -- Oropan, 05:43:55 07/19/07 Thu The police depts all over the country said they did not have enough money -- Bev, 09:16:27 07/19/07 Thu yep with bushie in charge everything is peachy keen . lololol -- Bev, 21:47:42 07/18/07 Wed
pfaw	Stephen	14:28:08 07/24/07 Tue
Re: pfaw -- Oropan, 15:15:44 07/24/07 Tue