RandomGuy
05-29-2008, 09:00 AM
Good God, that was easy and sickeningly so. (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=hastert+pork&btnG=Search)
Let's go down and do some extracts.
Hastert Directs Millions to Birthplace
Earmarked Money Skirts Procedures (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/28/AR2005052801183.html)
Hastert has earmarked $24 million in grants for Aurora-based nonprofit groups since becoming speaker in 1999, using an obscure section of the big federal spending bills passed each year.
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Hasterts Earmarks: Pork or Politics?
former Speaker Hastert in land deal scandal that questions legitimacy of federal funding. (http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/2748/)
In June, Speaker of the House Dennis J. Hastert (R-Ill.) made headlines twice. At the start of the month, he became the longest-serving Republican Speaker in history. But at month’s end, he was answering questions about a land deal that netted him $1.8 million. The land he’d sold was located five miles from a highway for which he’d earmarked $207 million.
That funding was a small part of a $286 billion transportation measure that contained more earmarks than any federal transportation bill to date. When the bill was in final committee, Hastert placed in two earmarks to fund the Prairie Parkway—a north-south connector west of Chicago that runs through fast-growing Kendall County, which is in Hastert’s district.
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Nearly 14,000 Pork Projects in Federal Budget this Year
Written By: Chris Edwards
Published In: Budget & Tax News
Publication Date: October 1, 2005
"Pork" spending by Congress has exploded in recent years. The $286 billion highway bill passed in July was bloated with 6,371 special projects inserted by members of Congress for their states and districts. Such projects are often of dubious value or for purposes that are the responsibility of local governments and the private sector.
Pork is only one type of waste in the budget, but it undermines efforts to restrain federal spending in general.
Republicans Lead Pork Explosion
The number of federal pork projects increased from fewer than 2,000 annually in the mid-1990s to almost 14,000 in 2005, as measured by Citizens Against Government Waste. Other data indicate the number of federal "earmarks" increased from 4,155 in 1994 to 15,584 in 2005.
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and the beat goes on and on.
Let's go down and do some extracts.
Hastert Directs Millions to Birthplace
Earmarked Money Skirts Procedures (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/28/AR2005052801183.html)
Hastert has earmarked $24 million in grants for Aurora-based nonprofit groups since becoming speaker in 1999, using an obscure section of the big federal spending bills passed each year.
-----------------------------------------
Hasterts Earmarks: Pork or Politics?
former Speaker Hastert in land deal scandal that questions legitimacy of federal funding. (http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/2748/)
In June, Speaker of the House Dennis J. Hastert (R-Ill.) made headlines twice. At the start of the month, he became the longest-serving Republican Speaker in history. But at month’s end, he was answering questions about a land deal that netted him $1.8 million. The land he’d sold was located five miles from a highway for which he’d earmarked $207 million.
That funding was a small part of a $286 billion transportation measure that contained more earmarks than any federal transportation bill to date. When the bill was in final committee, Hastert placed in two earmarks to fund the Prairie Parkway—a north-south connector west of Chicago that runs through fast-growing Kendall County, which is in Hastert’s district.
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Nearly 14,000 Pork Projects in Federal Budget this Year
Written By: Chris Edwards
Published In: Budget & Tax News
Publication Date: October 1, 2005
"Pork" spending by Congress has exploded in recent years. The $286 billion highway bill passed in July was bloated with 6,371 special projects inserted by members of Congress for their states and districts. Such projects are often of dubious value or for purposes that are the responsibility of local governments and the private sector.
Pork is only one type of waste in the budget, but it undermines efforts to restrain federal spending in general.
Republicans Lead Pork Explosion
The number of federal pork projects increased from fewer than 2,000 annually in the mid-1990s to almost 14,000 in 2005, as measured by Citizens Against Government Waste. Other data indicate the number of federal "earmarks" increased from 4,155 in 1994 to 15,584 in 2005.
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and the beat goes on and on.