Posted on 09/28/2007 12:03:04 PM PDT by lilylangtree
Washington, D.C. - Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today blasted the Senate leadership for its recent furtive attempts to roll back and undermine the earmark transparency and accountability provisions of S. 1, the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007, which was signed into law two weeks ago. Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is claiming that only earmarks included in appropriations bills can be subject to challenges on the Senate floor. The legislation is supposed to cover authorization and tax bills as well.
“Senate leaders are manipulating the process in order to maintain secrecy and stuff earmarks into as many bills as possible. In addition, someone is peddling pabulum to the media about a miraculous 50 percent reduction in congressional earmarks. The proof will come at the end of this process and all indications are that members of Congress, particularly the usual spendthrifts in the Senate, are getting ready to lard up federal spending bills as much as ever,” said CAGW Tom Schatz.
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) forced the Senate leadership to divulge its position when he revealed his plans to challenge nearly $2 billion worth of earmarks added in conference to the Water Resources Development Act. According to The Hill on September 21, 2007, Senator Reid’s staff informed the parliamentarian that there should be no objections allowed for earmarks added to conference reports on authorization bills. However, the Democratic staff director of the Rules Committee said the new law applies to all bills. The parliamentarian will make the final decision.
http://www.cagw.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=11026
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I totally believe that they are attempting to put this country into such debt that they hope this will force the NAU idea and the Amero. They will tell us that this is the only way out for the country. Where are they getting all this money they are spending? From the Chinese? They are going to put us into so much debt that we will never be able to dig our way out and they know it.
There is more to this debt than we know. It’s not a conspiracy theory..........it’s just not making sense. Congress needs to stop spending money.....the people need to cut them off.
They are going to get cut off eventually. The baby boomers are retiring. The golden goose is going away and those in the congress just won’t see it. I will get my revenge before to many more years. I can’t wait!
Here’s Jeff Flake talking about one of these earmarks:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=McEz2l1EvDs&mode=related&search=
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