It looks like pork to me and the last time I checked pork wasn’t kosher.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 — Despite promises by Congress to end the secrecy of earmarks and other pet projects, the House of Representatives has quietly funneled hundreds of millions of dollars to specific hospitals and health care providers under a bill passed [...]
Congressman Neil Abercrombie of Hawaii is whining because Speaker Pelosi won’t release the funds to remodel the House gym.
It’s not quite up to his standards and the wives have a terrible hardship of having to walk across a parking lot to get there, and besides, the aides to the Congressmen have a better gym with [...]
In all honesty, I must say Congressman John Murtha has grown too big for his pants since the last election.
Murtha is known for his fondness of earmarks, particularly in his district.
When, during a meeting of the powerful appropriations subcommittee on military spending, which Mr. Murtha chairs, Republican Congressman Mike Rogers of Michigan tried unsuccessfully to [...]
This afternoon Speaker Pelosi and Leader Reid had a signing ceremony of their own on the Supplemental War spending bill. With great fanfare Speaker Pelosi signed the bill she has been pushing for several weeks.
It has been reported Speaker Pelosi needed to read the bill and understand it thoroughly in order to sign this [...]
This is a House Floor speech by Rep. Sam Johnson (R) Texas, who spent approximately 7 years in a prison camp in Viet Nam. The speech was given on March 23, 2007 and we all know how that vote turned out.
He knows how it feels to have Congress take funds from a war he [...]
The leaders of Congress are set in their decision to attach some sort of timeline to the supplemental military spending bill.
“The president has a choice to make in the coming days: Cling to the discredited policies that have led our troops further into an intractable civil war, or work with a bipartisan majority of Congress [...]
The Congressional Research Service (CRS), a bipartisan group that has reported all pork in bills for the past twelve years suddenly has decided to stop doing that job and let other agencies do it.
This has Republican legislators upset because they are worried there might have been some pressure put on CRS by the leaders of [...]
If we didn’t already know it we know it now. Each major party is going to use the House vote from last week attaching ridiculous conditions on the military supplemental funding bill and plenty of pork to get the extra votes needed such as help for spinach growers, peanut storage help, dairy help etc. [...]
I’m going to quote from a Friday editorial in the San Diego Tribune in reference to all the pork that was added to the supplemental military spending bill that was passed in the House today.
I don’t know if this newspaper is conservative or liberal, but being based in San Diego tells me it is [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) - A sharply divided House voted Friday to order President Bush to bring combat troops home from Iraq next year, a victory for Democrats in an epic war-powers struggle and Congress’ boldest challenge yet to the administration’s policy.
Ignoring a White House veto threat, lawmakers voted 218-212, mostly along party lines, for a binding [...]
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