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 [In] Both Parties Find Trough to Their Liking , ... Federal pork spending has exploded in recent years. The highway bill passed in July was bloated with 6,371 pork projects, or earmarks, inserted by members of Congress. Overall, the number of pork projects has increased ten-fold during the past decade. ...The pork explosion is a neon sign advertising the fiscal failure of today's congressional leadership. |
| In the past, some members of Congress have short-changed troops, disaster victims, and taxpayers by including self-serving pork projects in emergency spending bills, |
| I supported local projects in the $286 billion transportation bill, even though it was filled with pork (pork barrel projects), |
| I would like to once again ask members of Congress to take a good hard look in the mirror and ask themselves whether their parochial pork projects are really more important than our national and fiscal security. |
| Pork-barrel spending illustrates and contributes to the meltdown of spending restraint in Washington. Instead of averting an impending fiscal crisis, members of Congress are grabbing the spoils to support their own re-election. |
| The Corps of Engineers and Congress are partners in crime. We have this process where the pork barrel dictates that we spread the money over the 535 mouths to feed that are Congress rather than putting our resources where it makes the most sense. |
| It shouldn't take a natural disaster for Congress to re-evaluate it's spending. Our district has needed these projects. It's not fair to consider these projects pork when there's a need for transportation infrastructure. |
| With a line-item veto, the president could help get special-interest and pork-barrel spending under control. Coming on the heels of last year's record pork-barrel spending, this proposal could not be more timely. |
| He doesn't get anything that the people of West Virginia don't pay for many times over in pork barrel projects in other states. |
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| Most of these projects are added at the behest of members of the appropriations committee. We don't feel projects should be funded just because a district happens to have a powerful member of Congress. |
| [Many politicians see no problem with that. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, argues that it is better for members to earmark money for their districts than to leave spending to the] bureaucrats. ... I hope not... . Pork barrel is in the eye of the beholder. |
| Congress has no incentive to rein in pork, because pork helps lawmakers get campaign contributions and get re-elected. It is entirely predictable that Congress would create the illusion of reform while retaining the system that allows them to sell government grants for campaign contributions. |
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Ordtak (1469561 st) Søk
Kategorier (2627 st) Søk
Forfattere (167535 st) Søk
Bilder (4592 st)
Født (10495 st)
Døde (3318 st)
Datoer (9517 st)
Land (5315 st)
Idiom (4439 st)
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Topplistor (6 st)
Ordspråksmusik (20 st)
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