Big News!
I just received this earth-shattering email from Senator Tom Coburn's office: bq. To rein in wasteful spending, Dr. Coburn intends to offer an amendment on every pork project stuffed into appropriations bills this year. There were at least 13,998 earmarked projects contained in last year's appropriations bills. By way of comparison, the Senate had only 366 roll call votes last year. Needless to say we are beefing up our appropriations staff for this challenge and we have requested that we be given at least 72 hours to review appropriations bills before they are considered. Memo to Ted Steven's office: Bring a defibrillator with you to the Senate floor from now on.
Posted at Andrew Roth at 1:18 PM | TrackBack
