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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (332123)4/7/2007 12:26:51 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1573110
 
Members have watched with envy as Mr. Murtha has used earmarks to remake Johnstown, Pa., an impoverished former steel town that now includes a Murtha highway, a Murtha airport and Murtha health centers. He has steered billions of dollars to his district over the years, including more than $80 million in the defense spending bill passed Friday, according to a preliminary tally.

You really don't want to compare what earmarks Murtha pushed to get for his district to the blubbery pork the GOPers were creating. In fact, getting money for a highway or airport is what good congressmen do. Those are infrastructure improvements that benefit a community economically. Its the "bridges to nowhere" and "the teapot museums" that are a farce.

You ever wonder where the GOP learned to bribe other congress people by putting their earmarks in a bill.....Mr. Murtha was their teacher back in 1994. And the GOPers made it into a fine art. ;-)

From the article you posted:

Not any more. Mr. Murtha installed a new system that the Republicans have continued: the chairman and ranking member work out the details behind closed doors, pack the bill with plenty of earmarks, and link future projects for members to their support for the bill. The appropriations committee now typically debates and approves the bill in less than eight minutes and the full House in less than half an hour. (The $437 billion measure passed last week took under 20 minutes.)

“The defense community has some presence in almost every Congressional district — or so long as you vote for the bill, it does,” said Mr. Moran, the Virginia Democrat. Mr. Murtha would “see to it” that members understood that those with earmarks in the bill who considered voting against it “better set their sights lower the next time,” Mr. Moran said.

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