Posted by
rycK on Tuesday, December 12, 2006 8:35:27 AM
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/12/11/222330.shtml?s=ic
Democrats Vow End to Earmarks
"There will be no congressional earmarks," Rep. David Obey, D-Wis., and Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., said Monday in a statement announcing their plans, which were quickly endorsed by incoming Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and soon-to-be Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.
“Earmarks are congressionally mandated projects such as grants for local governments, home-state universities and hospitals, roads, bridges and flood control construction, and economic development efforts not included in the president's spending proposals.”
What about Patty Murray’s 1.2 billion dollar light rail to nowhere in Seattle?? Does that stay? And we have the biggest pork sucker from West Virginia, the KKK racist Bobby Byrd is trying to stop pork?? What about the 30 billion dollar hole in Boston? Can we convert that to a sanitary landfill yet for Teddy’s whiskey bottles?
This is indeed a joke.