Far be it from the Democratic Senate to allow their preoccupation with defeating the Americans in Iraq to interfere with their first true love, unrelated and unnecessary pork projects. Courtesy of the Victory Caucus:
$24 million for funding for sugar beets.
$3 million for funding for sugar cane (goes to one Hawaiian co-op).$20 million for insect infestation damage reimbursements in Nevada, Idaho, and Utah.
$2.1 billion for crop production losses.
$1.5 billion for livestock production losses.
$100 million for Dairy Production Losses.
$13 million for Ewe Lamb Replacement and Retention Program.
$32 million for Livestock Indemnity Program.
$40 million for the Tree Assistance Program.
$100 million for Small Agricultural Dependent Businesses.
$6 million for North Dakota flooded crop land.
$35 million for emergency conservation program.
$50 million for the emergency watershed program.
$115 million for the conservation security program.
$18 million for drought assistance in upper Great Plains/South West.
Provision that extends the availability by a year $3.5 million in funding for guided tours of the Capitol. Also a provision allows transfer of funds from holiday ornament sales in the Senate gift shop.
$165.9 million for fisheries disaster relief, funded through NOAA (including $60.4 million for salmon fisheries in the Klamath Basin region).
$12 million for forest service money (requested by the president in the non-emergency FY2008 budget).
$425 million for education grants for rural areas - (Secure Rural Schools program).
$640 million for LIHEAP.
$25 million for asbestos abatement at the Capitol Power Plant.
$388.9 million for funding for backlog of old Department of Transportation projects.
$22.8 million for geothermal research and development.
$500 million for wildland fire management.
$13 million for mine safety technology research.
$31 million for one month extension of Milk Income Loss Contract program (MILC)
$50 million for fisheries disaster mitigation fund.
$100 million for security at the Presidential Candidate Nominating Conventions
$2 million for the University of Vermont
Read the whole actual bill at the link above. Nothing like a big ol' hunk of bacon to help treason go down, eh?
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I'll have to call Webb and ... (Below threshold)1. Posted by Scrapiron | March 27, 2007 11:13 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
I'll have to call Webb and tell him to put down the gun. He forgot to put me on the freebie list for a few million. Won't vote for him again, as I didn't the first time. He's becoming like the former black democrat governor. Serving but no one will admit voting for him.
1. Posted by Scrapiron | March 27, 2007 11:13 PM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on March 27, 2007 23:13
2. Posted by Justin Thyme | March 28, 2007 4:49 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Copy the above into an email you send to everyone in your address book. Start out with: "SOOooo whoever thought the Democrats would "clean up" the government got whipsawed right off the bat, didn't they?
2. Posted by Justin Thyme | March 28, 2007 4:49 PM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on March 28, 2007 16:49
3. Posted by COgirl | March 28, 2007 7:17 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
The GOP was criticized for their spending by the Dems prior to the election in November. The only thing worse than GOP spending is Dem spending. The people who voted for Pelosi, Reid and crew on the basis of GOP spending should think twice come 2008 election.
Got a post going up tomorrow about how we're going to pay for all of this. And let me give you a hint, it ain't by using credit cards.
3. Posted by COgirl | March 28, 2007 7:17 PM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on March 28, 2007 19:17
4. Posted by spurwing plover | March 30, 2007 9:57 AM | Score: 9 (9 votes cast)
Most donkeys go HEE HAW HEE HAW but the demacratic donkey gose OINK OINK OINK OINK
4. Posted by spurwing plover | March 30, 2007 9:57 AM |
Score: 9 (9 votes cast)
Posted on March 30, 2007 09:57
5. Posted by Figaro | April 1, 2007 5:51 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Imagine if the GOP had managed to pass a single budget bill before they left for break... then these millions of dollars would have been put in a farm bill, or a transportation funding bill, or any other number of bills. But the GOP dumped it on the Dems and scattered, where they now cry out for "minority rights" and "respect."
Anyway, none of this stuff is gonna pass because it is going to get the veto pen. Also, if you go state to state, I bet a lot of these things get support. I mean, yes it is pork in the strictest sense (not related to the war in Iraq), but most of these are not bridges to nowhere.
Why do I think a lot of these are bullshit? Because I dislike most farm subsidies, which go to big corporations in large part and keep the rest of the world's farmers (who don't have any other option yet) very poor.
5. Posted by Figaro | April 1, 2007 5:51 PM |
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Posted on April 1, 2007 17:51