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List of earmark counts by Rep for the House version of Defense Bill

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Posted by 3dc 2007-08-01 01:31|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 I just glanced at it, but I saw the name John Murtha twice. Why?

Posted by gorb 2007-08-01 03:03|| 2007-08-01 03:03|| Front Page Top

#2 Someone made a mistake, gorb. The second entry is for only one item.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-08-01 05:42|| 2007-08-01 05:42|| Front Page Top

#3 My oh my, isn't murtha the little warmonger, just you have a peep at his earmarks. He's a good friend to the defense contractors, wish I could say the same for our troops. He wants to spend millions on high tech gadgetry, but goes on national TV and denigrates their efforts. I don't understand this tool, he needs to drink the drain-o.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2007-08-01 08:46|| 2007-08-01 08:46|| Front Page Top

#4 And that "peace advocate" Nancy Pelosi is in for 16 earmarks total! Even Barney Frank is in for 3, and Keith Ellison is in for a "Plasma Sterilizer."

Comments anyone on our only openly Muslim Congresscritter asking for a Plasma Sterilizer? Let's hope it gets used on some select constituents of his, eh?

Posted by BA 2007-08-01 09:08|| 2007-08-01 09:08|| Front Page Top

#5 Nancy is in the list twice too so Nancy's count is 17.

Posted by 3dc 2007-08-01 09:52|| 2007-08-01 09:52|| Front Page Top

#6 And if the White House wasn't a testicle free zone this pile of crap would be vetoed along with a very loud and public campaign to expose all the pork. C'mon, Dubya, we thought we were voting for a conservative.

Posted by Abu Uluque6305 2007-08-01 10:53|| 2007-08-01 10:53|| Front Page Top

#7 On March 16, 2007, the New York Times reported that earmarks were still present under the new congressional leadership, but due to arcane definitional rules of the House were no longer known as "earmarks".

On June 14, 2007, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said: "If I just might direct the record to another place. Why dont we just leave this room today forgetting the word 'earmark'? This is legislatively directed spending, as opposed to executive spending." [1]

On June 19, 2007, CNN.com reported that there were 32,000 earmark requests pending in the House.
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Posted by 3dc 2007-08-01 14:16|| 2007-08-01 14:16|| Front Page Top

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