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From: LindyBill10/20/2005 3:24:50 PM
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The Coburn Amendment
By Kudlow Money Politic$

It’s official folks.

Fiscal responsibility has pork up against the ropes and is swinging away with bipartisan support.

All over the blogosphere—conservative sites and liberal too—a wave of support is gathering force behind the Coburn Amendment to put a final stop to Congressman Don Young’s infamous “Bridge to Nowhere” in Alaska. This amendment is a big deal as it threatens the opposition by opening up ALL the pork in the Highway Bill.

To refresh your memory, Congressman Young’s pork project costs $220 million for a 5.9-mile bridge connecting a tiny island with 50 residents to the Alaskan mainland, despite the fact that a ferry already exists shuttling residents back and forth every fifteen minutes or so. The cost of the bridge alone would be enough to buy every islander their own personal Lear jet.

Senator Tom Coburn’s (R-OK) amendment will transfer funding from the enormously wasteful pork project to reconstruction of the "Twin Spans" bridge in Louisiana.

As Club for Growth reports: "...the opposition is putting up a big fight. They sense this amendment, if successful, as establishing a precedent. A precedent where all pork is vulnerable and no lawmaker is safe. And they can’t allow that to happen."
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