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Omni-pork lives! Senate protects $7.7 billion worth of earmarks
Michelle Malkin —
... of relief. The Senate just voted to keep all those earmarks that don’t exist in the $410 billion spending bill. GOP Sen. John McCain’s amendment stripping the omni-pork package of an estimated 8,500 pet projects worth roughly $8 billion was defeated this afternoon. You can find a database of all those teeny, tiny pork projects here . Here’ s the roll call vote: [image] Allah’s got the vid of McCain on the Senate floor. Via GOP Senate staffer Tom Jones, here’s the earmark pork map for the Commerce/Justice/State Omni-pork bill — and here’s ...
Alexander, Spektre, RINOs, Do You Think We’re Not Watching?
Six Meat Buffet —
... says there are no earmarks in the bill, some members of the Senate tried to strip $8 Billion worth of them from the Omnibus Pork Bill. This attempt to force some measure of fiscal responsibility was thwarted by the following GOP Senators:
Lamar Alexander, TN
Bennett, UT
Bond, MO
Cochran, MS
Collins, ME (big shock!)
Murkowski, AK
Richard Shelby, AL
Snowe, ME (another big shock!)
Spektre, PA (biggest shock of all!)
Here is a very cool map that allows you to see where all the Pork is going (thanks to GOP staffer ...
