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

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (762329)	5/18/2007 6:20:47 AM
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House Intel Bill Larded With Pork and Global-Warming Mandates by Amanda B. Carpenter (More by this author) Posted: 05/18/2007 Despite strong opposition from conservative Republicans, the just-passed House version of next year’s intelligence spending bill includes at least $100 million worth of pork and a mandate that the intelligence community produce reports on global warming. Thanks to new disclosure laws passed by the House, this is the first bill in which earmarks were listed in an appropriations bill next to the lawmaker who secured them. But the new rules didn’t discourage a handful of members from securing pork for their districts. The most contentious earmark in the bill was an unclassified $23-million allotment to fund the National Drug Intelligence Center located Johnstown, Pa., in senior appropriator John Murtha’s (D.) home district. Last year, the House Government Reform Committee said the center should be shut down, and in his proposed budget, President Bush designated $16 million to close it. ... Message 23553090