thinkprogress.org — According to the November 6 edition of CQ Today, the two largest individual earmarks in the bill were placed by Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY): The single biggest earmark in the Labor-HHS-Education section of the bill belongs to Sen. Richard C. Shelby, R-Ala., who won $9.3 million for the University of
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Closed AccountNov 14, 2007
Does anybody have a link to this that isn't a left wing hate site?
davidyeahNov 14, 2007
First of all, I disagree that Thinkprogress is anything but an excellent source of liberal and progressive news and viewpoints, whether or not you agree with them. Here's the source for their reporting. It was originally in CQ magazine, but it is apparenlty unavailable on their web site. This one is from the senate's website, and is a copy of the article, as far as I can tell. <a class="user" href="http://coburn.senate.gov/ffm/index.cfm?FuseAction=">http://coburn.senate.gov/ffm/index.cfm?FuseAction=</a> ... FTA: "However, much of the “pork” Boehner complained about was requested by Republicans. Aside from the “National Programs and Activities,” the single biggest earmark in the Labor-HHS-Education section of the bill belongs to Sen. Richard C. Shelby, R-Ala., who won $9.3 million for the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. The second-largest was requested by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. — $8.4 million for the University of Louisville Research Foundation."
davidyeahNov 14, 2007
Bad link, sorry: <a class="user" href="http://tinyurl.com/34htfl">http://tinyurl.com/34htfl</a>
Closed AccountNov 15, 2007
So let me get this straight. Bush vetoes this bill because its full of pork and says so. But since he didn't single out the 20M that come from R's, he's wrong for doing so? Doesn't make sense. There's over 2000 earmarks in the bill that he objects to.
Closed AccountNov 15, 2007
Tired of the truth?Man, how do you rightards make it through the day being wrong over and over and over?How is it to live without ethics?What's it like to support failure and corruption and be dumb enough to come on digg and try to defend that sort of behavior?Do you donate money to the most corrupt regime in US history? How do you justify that to yourself?Aside from your ignorant hatred of brown people, WHAT do you get out of being a cheerleader for the neocon agenda?I guess you think that as a whitey you'll be rewarded.
Closed AccountNov 15, 2007
Hardly surprising you don't get it.You lack the ethical and moral equiptment to determine right from wrong.It's why your comments are buried on every story but the ones from right wing cesspools like LGF and mypetjawa and hotair.If you still don't get it by now you are dumber than I thought.