Flake Wants Bush to Veto War Supplemental
From Congressman Jeff Flake's office: bq. Washington, D.C. -- Republican Congressman Jeff Flake, who represents Arizona's Sixth District, today called on President Bush to veto the supplemental spending bill for Katrina recovery and the war in Iraq if the Senate includes several extraneous earmarks. bq. The Senate has included several earmarks to the spending bill unrelated to Katrina recovery or the war in Iraq. The bill also includes the so-called Railroad to Nowhere, a $700 million earmark to relocate a railroad line that was recently rebuilt after Hurricane Katrina damaged the line. bq. "Using 'must-pass' spending bills to add pork projects is nothing new in Congress," said Flake. "Unfortunately, the Senate is trying to take the practice to a new low." bq. "I think the Senate is taking the term 'railroading the taxpayers' a little too literally with this Railroad to Nowhere." bq. "President Bush has been complicit in Congress' spending spree for too long. He needs to tell us that he will veto the spending bill if we load it up with pork, and he needs to mean it."
