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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?

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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (17790)	11/15/2007 12:08:03 PM
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Rep. Jeff Flake wished he would have had more time to hang his head low to read a "massive, 853-page" conference report before voting on it. The Arizona Republican is critical of the Democratic leadership for giving congressmen only "one day to sift" through the monster labor-health & human services-veterans appropriations report. "Many of us were critical of our own Republican leadership in years past for not waiting the required three days between filing a bill and voting on it, but this is worse than anything we pulled," Mr. Flake says. Worse yet, the recent report contained 150 pages of earmarks, including $130,000 for a First Ladies Museum in Canton, Ohio. And then there were nine "airdropped" earmarks, including $1 million for the Thomas Daschle Center for Public Service and Representative Democracy, named for the former Democratic Senate majority leader from South Dakota who lost his bid for re-election in 2004.

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