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Posted on 08/02/2007 4:52:59 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Murtha nabs $150M pork By Roxana Tiron August 03, 2007 Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), chairman of the House Appropriations defense panel, has secured the most earmarked dollars in the 2008 military spending bill, followed closely by the panel’s ranking member Rep. Bill Young (R-Fla.).
Even though Young secured 52 earmarks, worth $117.2 million — and co-sponsored at least $27 million worth of others — Murtha’s 48 earmarks amount to a total of $150.5 million, according to a database compiled by the watchdog organization Taxpayers for Common Sense (TCS).
The House is expected to take up the $459.6 billion defense appropriations bill Friday. It contains 1,337 earmarks, costing $3.07 billion, which is less than half the number and value of earmarks in last year’s bill.
Keith Ashdown of TCS said, however, that the sum is derived from only the earmarks that the panel disclosed at the back of the bill’s report. He expects to find undisclosed projects as well.
“It appears that they are in keeping with the House commitment to reduce earmarks by 50 percent,” Ashdown said. “There are less [earmarks], but it is early and we have not looked at everything.”
The 2008 bill for “the first time gives us a snapshot [of] how the committee allocates taxpayers’ resources,” Ashdown added.
Even though the panel disclosed the project name, the requesting member, and the budget line in which the project was requested, the bill and its earmarks are not a model of transparency. The panel did not disclose either the amount requested or the companies that would benefit. TCS paired the disclosed requests in the committee report with the dollar amounts for the projects published in the bill.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Thank God for our media. I can sleep well tonight knowing this will get the same coverage as Murtha’s hateful comments about our troops. Just need to adjust the rabbit ears because I’m having a little trouble tuning in the reports...
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The Murtha-Faker is upto his old tricks. Being so sanctimonious, but having his hand out for favors.
Could this be Ted Kennedy?
on a good day... or maybe a bad one.
That’s one way Democrats buy votes. They hand out Federal dollars. The government has become a burden on the people who pay for it. And the folks in Congress with the power aren’t the least bit interested in the country’s welfare.
Murtha’d again.
The Honorable Pork Man of Pennsylvania, afterall, claims to represent our troops as they are being put in harms way... [ /sarcasm off ]
Maybe he will surpass PACMAN in fame...
Maybe we should add porkman to the thread and other Murtha threads so that searches for him are easy to find...
I wonder who will win the honor of porkgirl or porkwoman?
#2 was a Republican.
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