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Author: Stephen |
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Date Posted: 19:18:33 06/26/07 Tue In reply to: Oropan 's message, "There they go again" on 14:01:57 06/03/07 Sun SO WHAT? Bush is an SOB and anything you post about Democrats and/or Republicans doesn't amount to squat. It isn't about political parties. It's about ruining the country. Can't you simply admit error so we can move on here? > > Email this Story > >Jun 3, 7:20 AM (ET) > >By ANDREW TAYLOR > >WASHINGTON (AP) - After promising unprecedented >openness regarding Congress' pork barrel practices, >House Democrats are moving in the opposite direction >as they draw up spending bills for the upcoming budget >year. > >Democrats are sidestepping rules approved their first >day in power in January to clearly identify "earmarks" >- lawmakers' requests for specific projects and >contracts for their states. > >Rather than including specific pet projects, grants >and contracts in legislation as it is being written, >Democrats are following an order by the House >Appropriations Committee chairman to keep the bills >free of such earmarks until it is too late for critics >to effectively challenge them. > >Rep. David Obey, D-Wis., says those requests for dams, >community grants and research contracts for favored >universities or hospitals will be added to spending >measures in the fall. That is when House and Senate >negotiators assemble final bills. > >Such requests total billions of dollars. > >As a result, most lawmakers will not get a chance to >oppose specific projects as wasteful or questionable >when the spending bills for various agencies get their >first votes in the full House in June. > >The House-Senate compromise bills due for final action >in September cannot be amended and are subject to only >one hour of debate, precluding challenges to >individual projects. > >Obey insists he is reluctantly taking the step because >Appropriations Committee members and staff have not >had enough time to fully review the 36,000 earmark >requests that have flooded the committee. > >What Obey is doing runs counter to new rules that >Democrats promised would make such spending decisions >more open. > > >href="http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070603/D8PHA8LG >0.html">http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070603/D8PHA8 >LG0.html [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |