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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CYBERKEN who wrote (532485)	1/30/2004 12:17:04 AM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Included in this massive pork bill is overtime modifications. Typical Bush, kill overtime pay but get that "jr golf tee" program in there! Bush can't survive this, the man is a loser. One reason is that this giant spending bill is full of pork -- there's something in it for virtually every member of Congress' home district. That's why calls from constituents will be especially important to stop this bill -- they need to know we won't take the bait, that we insist on a better, cleaner bill instead. Here are some examples of the pork in the Omnibus spending bill: $50,000,000 to build an indoor rainforest in Iowa. $2,000,000 for the First Tee Program, to get young people into golf. $405,000 for industrial lubricants research in Iowa. $338,000 for the Alabama Beef Connection. $225,000 for the National Wild Turkey federation, a hunting concern. $4,000,000 for the International Fertilizer Development Center. $595,000,000 for Trilogy, an FBI information technology program. $397,700,000 for prison buildings and facilities. $6,000,000 for a Police Athletic League. $30,000,000 for the Southwest Border Prosecutors Initiative. $7,105,000 for construction of an international narcotics control law enforcement academy in Roswell, NM. Up to $120,000,000 for a classified Defense Department project. $250,000 for the General Patton Museum of Cavalry & Armor, in Kentucky. $225,000 for a shopping center in Adelanto, CA. $500,000 for the "Exercise in Hard Choices" at the U. of Akron, which attempts to replicate House and Senate meetings in which congressional members review a budget, and vote to include or exclude various options. Not all choices are so hard. This Omnibus spending bill must be stopped.