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House to vote on $448 billion, six bill, omnibus budget with 5,912 earmarks stuffed in
wsbradio.com/blogs/jamie_dupree ^ | December 10, 2009 12:00 AM | Jamie Dupree

Posted on 12/10/2009 10:55:59 AM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

Jamie Dupree

The Omnibus Arrives

It's a classic time in Congress, as lawmakers will try in the next few days to jam six budget bills through the House and Senate, so they can quickly issue press releases to take credit for some of the local projects stuffed in there.

We already had one Omnibus earlier this year, which wrapped up the leftover budget work from 2008.

Now we have a second one, as Democrats have rolled six budget bills into one, totaling $448 billion in government budgets. And yes, there will be a lot of Republican votes for this, because they are getting a chunk of the pork, too.

If you want to see what your lawmakers are up to, here is a list of the bills that will be included in this Omnibus, and a link that lets you check out what's in each part. These are all pdf files.

* Transportation & Housing - http://bit.ly/7jSVIv

* Commerce, Justice, Science - http://bit.ly/7pAWlc

* Financial Services - http://bit.ly/5nq65O

* Labor, Health, Education - http://bit.ly/5RJ1rn

* Military Construction & Veterans - http://bit.ly/5vMLpu

* State Department & Foreign Aid - http://bit.ly/7oEYgX

Five of the six bills have earmarks (there are none in the foreign aid bill) and by my count, there are 5,912 in all, with Labor at 1810, Transportation at 1548 and Commerce at 1515.

If you want to search for earmarks in your state, here is a little trick to find them more quickly: search by using comma, space, and the two letter abbreviation for your state.

Like for Florida, you would search for , FL - Georgia would be , GA - etc. I find that works quickly. The earmarks are in lengthy tables in the second half of the above files.

It is going to take a few days to comb through these bills to see what kind of extras in there, but here's just a few of the earmarks from the Transportation section of the bill:

http://wsbradio.com/blogs/jamie_dupree/2009/12/the-omnibus-arrives.html

http://wsbradio.com/dupree/


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: dems; earmarks; house; omnibus; votes
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1 posted on 12/10/2009 10:55:59 AM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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The MSM are not reporting on the Omnibus. Blogs until after it passes I suppose.

http://blog.heritage.org/2009/12/10/throwing-values-under-the-omnibus/


2 posted on 12/10/2009 10:59:37 AM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives

thank you!


3 posted on 12/10/2009 11:02:17 AM PST by Irenic
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives

Sounds like vote buying to me. With money borrowed from foreign sources.


4 posted on 12/10/2009 11:07:01 AM PST by Logical me (Oh, well!!!)
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To: Logical me

I can’t even imagine the pork that will be in stimulus 2.


5 posted on 12/10/2009 11:15:28 AM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives

anyone have a link to the list of earmarks ?


6 posted on 12/10/2009 11:17:32 AM PST by PMAS
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives

The house of whores voting for more money.


7 posted on 12/10/2009 11:19:29 AM PST by chemicalman
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives

Like in Alaska...somebody should each file a legal challenge to every one of those earmarks...


8 posted on 12/10/2009 11:20:40 AM PST by mo
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives

Didn’t King Obama say he would veto any bill containing earmarks?


9 posted on 12/10/2009 11:22:40 AM PST by Fresh Wind ("...a whip of political correctness strangles their voice"-Vaclav Klaus on GW skeptics)
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To: PMAS

It is so hard to find news on this. This may be last years earmarks.

http://www.heritage.org/research/budget/upload/porktable.html


10 posted on 12/10/2009 11:35:26 AM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives

Our country is about to fold financially and we are borrowing money to pay foreign aide to those who use it to fight against us? What is wrong with this picture?


11 posted on 12/10/2009 11:36:31 AM PST by Concho
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To: Concho

Finally a news story on this..

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/30450.html

Oh and MORMON CRICKETS and Tattoo removal program in Mission Hills, CA are so important ya know!

http://www.heritage.org/research/budget/upload/porktable.html


12 posted on 12/10/2009 11:40:56 AM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives

$400,000 Minneapolis, MN for a program focused on weatherization technician training and residential energy auditing

-—lots of misc “after school programs” and “teacher development programs” found,too ...
and tons of $ for “non-profits” and “arts education”

-—Hawaai Innocence Project - $300k
what a huge ,steaming , pile...


13 posted on 12/10/2009 12:05:45 PM PST by WOBBLY BOB (ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

any more monies for Pelosi’s poor poor field mice?

I am worried about getting through Christmas and if jobs will still be in exoistance and they jet around to thousand dollar plate dinners (REID LANDREU) and spend money on stupid mindless crap and bankrupt everything when they are working.

Give me Barmey Frank’s or Schumer’s car that we make the payments for. Give me their homes as we have no Christmas because we have to save to pay the mortgage if we lose jobs.


14 posted on 12/10/2009 12:28:40 PM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: WOBBLY BOB

any more monies for Pelosi’s poor poor field mice?

I am worried about getting through Christmas and if jobs will still be in existance and they jet around to thousand dollar plate dinners (REID LANDREU) and spend money on stupid mindless crap and bankrupt everything when they are working.

Give me Barmey Frank’s or Schumer’s car that we make the payments for. Give me their homes as we have no Christmas because we have to save to pay the mortgage if we lose jobs.


15 posted on 12/10/2009 12:29:02 PM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives

Section 418 modifies a provision proposed by the Senate which prohibits funds in this Act or any prior Act from going to the group ACORN or any of its affiliates, subsidiaries, or allied
organizations.

http://docs.house.gov/rules/omni2010/hr3288cr_diva_jes.pdf

Northern Lights Express $500,000 Klobuchar/ Oberstar
http://docs.house.gov/rules/omni2010/hr3288cr_diva_jes.pdf

Department of Education-National Projects Innovation and Improvement National Writing Project for activities authorized -—$25,646,000

Capps; Capuano; Cardoza; Crowley; Davis (CA); Davis (ll), Ellison;
under the Elementary and Secondary Edu- Hirono; Holt; Johnson, Eddie Bernice, Kildee; langevin, McCarthy (NY);
cation Act Miller, George, Murphy (CD; Oberstar; Pomeroy; Ross; Sarbanes; Van
Hollen; Waxman, Wu; Yarmuth

Rural Domestic Violence Assistance Grants , $41,000,000
Violence on College Campuses $9,500,000

Baltimore City Police Department, Baltimore City Gun Violence Reduction Initiative $100,100

City of Detroit Police Department, Eastside Firearm Reduction Initiative. $100,000


16 posted on 12/10/2009 12:33:57 PM PST by WOBBLY BOB (ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives

$800,000 Oyster rehabilitation, AL Shelby

I didn’t even know they drank.


17 posted on 12/10/2009 12:35:59 PM PST by WOBBLY BOB (ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

LMAO!!!


18 posted on 12/10/2009 1:05:14 PM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: WOBBLY BOB

I saw on article here the other day that they were voting on replenishing ACORN fully back to their normal billions of slush funds.


19 posted on 12/10/2009 1:33:19 PM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives

I have seen some tattoos that probably need to be removed, but that foreign aid needs to be removed much more.


20 posted on 12/10/2009 1:39:03 PM PST by Concho
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