Earmarks?
Hey folks.
{Laughing}. According to AP -House Democrat warns GOP on earmarks By CHARLES BABINGTON, Associated Press Writer
Partisan sniping over Congress' targeted spending escalated Monday as a House committee chairman threatened to kill all pet projects if Republican leaders "demagogue" the issue.
The chairman, Wisconsin Democrat David Obey, also said that his House Appropriations Committee will publicize proposed "earmarks" before House-Senate conferees resolve differences in the government's annual spending bills this fall.
But Republicans said that offer falls far short of Democrats' January promise to disclose lawmakers' earmark requests before the bills reach the House floor, a process that begins this week.
Remember when I told you this.
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.
Like millions on Peanut storage tucked into the Iraq War Spending Bill. You know, it’s like that. {Smile} This is just too good folks. They are not even trying to hide who they are anymore. They are operating out in the open and telling you what they are doing at the same time. You had better be paying attention.
They are warning Republicans about it?
The practice of placing earmarks in spending bills has grown in recent years. So has criticism of the roads, museums, contracts and other projects that lawmakers seek for their districts.
When they assumed control of Congress in January, Democrats rewrote House rules to require that earmark requests — and the people who make them — be publicized in documents that accompany spending bills as they are being debated. But Obey earlier this month said such lists would not be available until the House had voted on the bills and readied them for a House-Senate committee for final negotiations.
{Laughing harder}
Obey told reporters Monday that lawmakers have submitted thousands of earmark requests this year. Many will be rejected immediately, he said, but his committee's staff needs time to investigate them. "I'm trying to deal with the reality of the situation," he added.
The reality of the situation is YOU and YOUR party are the Earmark Kings and Queens. You and your party use them all the time. Idiot. Get this. Remember Obey said to keep the bills free of such earmarks until it is too late for critics to effectively challenge them.
Now?
"The only real opportunity you have to prevent something stupid from happening is to have the protection of the staff, who knows the most about these programs and can flag something if they think it smells," Obey said. "And they need time to do it."
{Sigh}
Have a great Tuesday folks. See you tomorrow.
Peter
Hey folks.
{Laughing}. According to AP -House Democrat warns GOP on earmarks By CHARLES BABINGTON, Associated Press Writer
Partisan sniping over Congress' targeted spending escalated Monday as a House committee chairman threatened to kill all pet projects if Republican leaders "demagogue" the issue.
The chairman, Wisconsin Democrat David Obey, also said that his House Appropriations Committee will publicize proposed "earmarks" before House-Senate conferees resolve differences in the government's annual spending bills this fall.But Republicans said that offer falls far short of Democrats' January promise to disclose lawmakers' earmark requests before the bills reach the House floor, a process that begins this week.
Remember when I told you this.
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.
Like millions on Peanut storage tucked into the Iraq War Spending Bill. You know, it’s like that. {Smile} This is just too good folks. They are not even trying to hide who they are anymore. They are operating out in the open and telling you what they are doing at the same time. You had better be paying attention.
They are warning Republicans about it?
The practice of placing earmarks in spending bills has grown in recent years. So has criticism of the roads, museums, contracts and other projects that lawmakers seek for their districts.
When they assumed control of Congress in January, Democrats rewrote House rules to require that earmark requests — and the people who make them — be publicized in documents that accompany spending bills as they are being debated. But Obey earlier this month said such lists would not be available until the House had voted on the bills and readied them for a House-Senate committee for final negotiations.{Laughing harder}
Obey told reporters Monday that lawmakers have submitted thousands of earmark requests this year. Many will be rejected immediately, he said, but his committee's staff needs time to investigate them. "I'm trying to deal with the reality of the situation," he added.
The reality of the situation is YOU and YOUR party are the Earmark Kings and Queens. You and your party use them all the time. Idiot. Get this. Remember Obey said to keep the bills free of such earmarks until it is too late for critics to effectively challenge them.
Now?
"The only real opportunity you have to prevent something stupid from happening is to have the protection of the staff, who knows the most about these programs and can flag something if they think it smells," Obey said. "And they need time to do it."
{Sigh}
Have a great Tuesday folks. See you tomorrow.
Peter
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