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Retiring Sen. Richard Shelby Slips $656 Million Worth of Earmarks into $1.7 Trillion Omnibus
Breitbart ^ | 12/20/2022 | Sean Moran

Posted on 12/20/2022 11:14:54 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Outgoing Senate Appropriations Committee Vice Chair Richard Shelby (R-AL) slipped $656 million worth of earmarks into the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill.

Congressional leaders dropped the $1.7 trillion, 4,155-page omnibus spending bill at 1:30 a.m. ET, giving lawmakers little time to digest the implications of the mammoth legislation.

While the bill may have many major reforms that are readily apparent, lawmakers also slipped hard-to-find earmarks into the bill. Many lawmakers, such as Shelby, are retiring and face few political repercussions for pushing a bill that contains many special interest carveouts and increases the deficit.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: assistantdemocrat; earmarks; gopestablishment; omnibus; rino; shelby; trillion; uniparty
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To: nwrep

With the victory in the ‘94 election, Shelby switched sides.


21 posted on 12/20/2022 1:04:28 PM PST by Jemian (War Eagle! )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I expect his hand-picked successor to follow suit for the next 30 to 42 years...


22 posted on 12/20/2022 1:05:15 PM PST by kosciusko51
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Here is the list.

$13 million for the Abbeville Municipal Airport Runway Extension
$26 million for the Tuscaloosa National Airport (TCL) Runway Extension
$100 million for the Woosley Finnell Bridge
$200 million for the Alabama State Port Authority Intermodal and Terminal Expansion
$50 million for a Revolving Loan Fund to benefit the city of Mobile, Alabama
$35 million for the Marion Military Institute
$45 million for the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa
$2.6 million for the Deepening Study for Tennessee—Tombigbee Waterway (TTWW), AL and MS and Black Warrior and Tombigbee (BWT) Rivers; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
$6.7 million for the Alabama River Lakes, AL; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
$356 million for the Apalachicola, Chattahoochee and Flint Rivers, GA, AL & FL; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
$7.25 million for the Black Warrior & Tombigbee Rivers (BWT), AL; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
$7 million for the Dauphin Island Bay, AL; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
$250,000 for the Jim Woodruff Lock and Dam, Lake Seminole, FL, AL & GA; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
$2.25 million for The University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, AL, for a permanent endowment fund to support the recruitment and retention of exceptional faculty in science and engineering.
$35 million for the Spring Hill College, AL, for facilities and equipment
$76 million for the UAB Heersink School of Medicine, AL, for facilities and equipment
$50 million for the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, AL, for a permanent endowment fund to support the recruitment and retention of exceptional faculty in science and engineering.


23 posted on 12/20/2022 1:31:40 PM PST by plain talk
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To: plain talk
35 million for Spring Hill College. That's a private school.
24 posted on 12/20/2022 1:46:33 PM PST by political1 (Love your neighbors)
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To: plain talk

I see a bunch of Native American named places.

If Joe changes their names, can they still get the money?

(Of course, but I would argue not.)


25 posted on 12/20/2022 1:55:22 PM PST by Scrambler Bob
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Alabama elected his page to replace him - so expect more of the same from our new junior senator.


26 posted on 12/20/2022 1:57:23 PM PST by bamahead (Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
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To: plain talk

Not only did the retiring senator load up on pork, he made sure Northern Alabama received next to nothing.


27 posted on 12/20/2022 2:04:12 PM PST by kosciusko51
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To: dfwgator
Yep...The public gets what the majority wants...And the majority wants stuff...Whether or not they can afford it...The government will subsidize their dreams, until it's too late for common sense to obtain.

Marx, if ignorant of the cure, was aware of the disease:

Democracy is the road to socialism. Karl Marx

28 posted on 12/20/2022 2:04:22 PM PST by PerConPat (A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground. - Mencken)
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To: bamahead

GMTA. Please see #22.


29 posted on 12/20/2022 2:05:20 PM PST by kosciusko51
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To: ChicagoConservative27

INDLATIONARY RECESSION at least.


30 posted on 12/20/2022 3:16:17 PM PST by cowboyusa (America Cowboy up! )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

INFLATIONARY DEPRESSION.


31 posted on 12/20/2022 3:16:55 PM PST by cowboyusa (America Cowboy up! )
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To: Jemian

Notice a lot of University of Alabama system money...

Not a thin dime for Auburn or AUM.

Naturally he’s a U Ala alumni....


32 posted on 12/20/2022 3:26:33 PM PST by Alas Babylon! (Gov't declaring misinformation is tyranny: “Who determines what false information is?” )
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To: FlyingEagle
How big is a Trillion. Interesting graphic.

That's a little dishonest though because it uses $100 bills.

Using single $1 bills, a trillion dollars would stretch nearly 97 million miles, six million miles longer than the distance between the Earth and the Sun.

Stacked one on top of each other, a trillion one dollar bills would reach nearly 68,000 miles high and weigh over a million tons.

33 posted on 12/20/2022 3:30:29 PM PST by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
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To: Alas Babylon!

We have seen that a lot. It was worse in the 60s and 70s. Nothing has changed. He’s a very selfish person.


34 posted on 12/20/2022 6:06:43 PM PST by Jemian (War Eagle! )
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To: plain talk

A lot of money is going to the colleges. Why? It’s woke spending. Shelby has always been a big spender on colleges. I guess he likes buildings named after himself.

We don’t need to spend tax dollars on colleges and universities anymore. We’d be better off if 70% of them closed and people were forced to get jobs.


35 posted on 12/20/2022 9:11:31 PM PST by boycott
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To: boycott

Did you graduate from a college / university?


36 posted on 12/20/2022 9:12:44 PM PST by plain talk
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To: bamahead

Britt will keep the kickbacks coming.


37 posted on 12/21/2022 2:48:37 AM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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To: plain talk

I sure did. I actually met Richard Shelby there. Spare me.

And, by the way, I paid my own way with jobs that I worked. I didn’t owe student loans when I finished.


38 posted on 12/21/2022 7:21:06 AM PST by boycott
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To: bamahead

I did my best to not elect that woman. Dick Shelby not only robbed the tax payers for this support but he stiffed the north part of the state where most of the growth and tech is at. Dick sucks and we need to primary his little mini me that just won.


39 posted on 12/21/2022 7:47:46 AM PST by wgmalabama (Censored!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
What a complete piece of BEEP

Agreed. Wonder where his "ultra-conservative, Trump-endorsed" chief legislative aide was in all of this....

40 posted on 12/23/2022 8:16:09 AM PST by awelliott (What one generation tolerates, the next embraces....)
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