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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush
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To: jlallen who wrote (24096)12/22/2003 5:32:18 PM
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the Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill, which accounts for one-third of discretionary non-defense spending, was long considered off limits to pork projects. With Republicans in power, that bill is now bursting at the seams with wasteful earmarks. In fiscal year 2003, there were 1,857 separate earmarks in the bill for a total of $896 million — nearly a billion dollars of pork in one bill alone.

Do you get that...when the Democrats had control there were no earmarks in the Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill....none, zero, nada.....now that the Republicans have control...there are 1,857 earmarks.

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