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To: tejek who wrote (355441)	10/19/2007 6:59:58 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572970

Hippies used to say if you remember Woodstock, you weren't really there. Republicans say presidential contender Hillary Rodham Clinton can forget about getting $1 million in taxpayer funds for a Woodstock museum. Mrs. Clinton and Sen. Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrats, want to earmark the federal money for a museum that would commemorate the 1969 music festival in their state. "Woodstock Museum is a shining example of what's wrong with Washington on pork-barrel, out-of-control spending," said John McCain, Arizona senator and Republican presidential hopeful. It's an example, he said, of "the earmark pork-barrel spending which has made the American people disenchanted and angry." Sens. Jon Kyl, Arizona Republican, and Tom Coburn, Oklahoma Republican, were trying yesterday to strip the Woodstock earmark from a massive health and education spending bill on the Senate floor. Democrats moved to kill their effort, but Republicans won a key 52-42 vote — seeping with presidential politics — signaling that the Clinton-Schumer earmark would soon be gone. Five Democrats voted against the Woodstock provision. So did old-school Republican members of the Appropriations Committee who on prior occasions voted against conservative criticism of senators' earmarks.