Mean What You Say Obama To pork, or not to pork

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To pork, or not to pork

1,000-plus-page spending bill includes hundreds of pages of earmarks - pet spending projects inserted by lawmakers, ranging from:

$185,000 for coral reef research and preservation in Maui County, Hawaii

$55,000 in meteorological equipment for Pierce College in Woodland Hills, Calif.

$9.9 million for science enhancement at historically black colleges in South Carolina.

In addition to the basic operations of government, the new budget includes 775 pages of earmarks, funding programs that include local museums, colleges and infrastructure projects.

Among the earmarked projects in the bill are $764,000 for the Lake George Watershed Protection Initiative in New York, requested by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, New York
Democrat;

$9.9 million for South Carolina's historically black colleges and universities, requested by House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn, South Carolina Democrat;

$1.1 million requested by Senate Republican Conference Chairman Lamar Alexander and Sen. Bob Corker, both of Tennessee, for water treatment plant improvements in Tennessee's Unicoi County, as well as $300,000 for a sewer extension project in another county.

Examples of Earmarks in the Omnibus

$713,625 Woody Biomass at SUNY-ESF. Walsh and Schumer sponsors

$951,500 Sustainable Las Vegas. Berkeley and Reid sponsors.

$24,000 A+ for Abstinence. Specter is sponsor.

$300,000 Montana World Trade Center. Rehberg sponsor.

$950,000 Myrtle Beach International Trade and Convention Center. Graham sponsor.

$200,000 Oil Region Alliance. Peterson sponsor.

$190,000 Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, WY for digitizing and editing the Cody collection. Barbara Cubin is the sponsor

$143,000 Las Vegas Natural History Museum, Las Vegas, NV, to expand natural history education programs. Sponsored by Harry Reid

$238,000 for the Polynesian Voyaging Society, Honolulu, HI, for educational programs. Sen. Daniel Inouye is the sponsor.

$381,000 for Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York, NY for music education programs. Jerrold Nadler is the sponsor.

Rep. Jerry Lewis of California, the top Republican on the House Appropriations Committee, would spend $3.8 million on a Needles, Calif., highway.

Sen. Thad Cochran of Mississippi, the top Republican on Senate Appropriations, backs earmarks including a $950,000 nature education center in Moss Point, Miss. He defends earmarks.

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[jorgetellezperez]

what an idiot...

[AgentA2628]

love it how he talks like he can do a better job than obama, even though anyone can, but this guy has the leadership skills of a hamster

[Winstonclawfinger]

there is a kind of lizard that shoot blood from it's eyes for self defence. Must be a relative of Beck

wannabe hitler

[deaneden79]

I hate Beck. Such an ass-hat.

[DaytonaRoadster]

Hey looks its Nazi Tourettes Beck!

[Dejayfever1]

i worked for the biomass project at ESF, I am glad they are getting 700,000 dollars!!! whahoo!!!

[commonsensrules]

tell em how it is Glenn.

Call out those little left wing commies every chance you get.

infact all intelligent people should come together and donate to the beck cause!

we should finance this guy- give him the freedom to really lay the smack down on all these wanna be tyrants!

definition of liberal=somone who needs to be ruled! incapable of individuality, no desire to achieve anything outside of ("gimme gimme gimme) free stuff!

FILTHY LITTLE HOBBITSES

[AgnesBojaxhiu2000]

the rushie herbert hoover neocons is the obstruction party of NO ... the neocons are mind controlled mega ditto heads ... the rushbo will be vacationing in hawaii but the guy should sent home ... he dissed hawaii by saying that obama's and all hawaii birth certificates are invalid and that obama was in fact born in kenya ... and that hawaii newspapers new baby reports on obama birth were just plain wrong ... he insults hawaii saying that their native son cannot be president .. rushbo is a psycho

[dodoegg1]

Beck is an annoying little bubble of right wing asininity

[Mbash93]

1:49-2:53 had a special meaning to me. My dad is a doctor. They passed laws that drug reps couldn't give them anything, even a friggen battery for a pager. It's apparently a "bribe" (to get them to buy their product), but I thought that this can be compared to the earmarks. Politicians who passed the law can pocket a few million if they feel like it, but God forbid a drug rep take a doctor out for a sandwich.