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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (79171)	9/29/2006 2:45:47 PM
From: tonto	Respond to of 173976

Neither party is doing their job. There is also a stack of pet projects for lawmakers' homes states and districts, including $372 million obtained for Hawaii, home of Daniel Inouye, top Democrat on the defense appropriations panel. ''There are 2,000 earmarks in the bill directed by Members of Congress -- somewhere around $8 billion -- and a large portion of those don't have anything to do with the mission of the Defense Department,'' said Tom Coburn, R-Okla.