The House yesterday approved sending another $410 billion down the drain. That would be the omnibus spending bill that was loaded with 9,000 earmarks. Some of the earmarks:
* $200,000 for “Tattoo Removal Violence Prevention Outreach Program,” pg. 283;
*Maine lobster earmark in the omnibus, pg. 173;
*$5.8 million earmark for the “Ted Kennedy Institute for the Senate…for the planning and design of a building & an endowment,” pg. 232;
*and National Council of La Raza, $473,000 earmark from Sens. Bingaman and Menendez, pg. 212.
Not surprisingly Congressman Kagen voted for this porkulus deal. He also had a few earmarks in the bill to the tune of $2,732,000.
Speciality Martets, Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade. and Consumer Protection $338,000
Wisconsin Uvestock Identification Consortium $1,455,000
Johne’s Disease activities, Wisconsin $939,000
Again Congressman Kagen the question has to be asked, why do continue to vote for pork-filled bills that waste OUR money as taxpayers??
And here’s some more. Why don’t you disclose your earmark requests online? Better yet why don’t you forgo making earmark requests?
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