Posted on 05/16/2012 9:07:22 AM PDT by radioone
A provision for a uranium-enrichment plant in Ohio keeps cropping up all over Capitol Hill: $150 million in the Senate’s highway bill, $150 million in a Senate energy bill, $100 million in that bill’s House counterpart. There’s even talk of putting it in a final House-Senate transportation bill.
Weren’t grants like this — earmarks by another name — supposed to be banished by Republicans in Congress? Yes. And for most lawmakers, they are.
But the earmark has the top two Republicans in Congress on its side: House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). And by Congress’ own rules, it’s not an earmark. Definitions aside, it is proof that when top politicians want to pay for a pet project, they can usually find a way.
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“Get Rid of Pork!!! (Well except the pork for my district, we really need it)”
McConnell and Boehner: Exhibit 1A and Exhibit 1B of what is wrong with the Republican Party.
Exhibit 1 is probably going to get nominated for President in Tampa, unfortunately.
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