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[PA Sen] Specter’s pork chop riles sens.
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| Last Edited | ArmyDem Nov 15, 2005 08:10pm |
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| News Date | Wednesday, November 16, 2005 02:10:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By Alexander Bolton
Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), has angered colleagues facing reelection in 2006 by cutting $1 billion in pet projects from his subcommittee’s spending bill to pay for programs popular with Democrats and centrist Republicans.
Historically, the labor, health and human services, and education bill is one of the most project-loaded of the annual spending bills, say congressional observers who track what they denounce as pork-barrel spending.
A senior GOP aide said yesterday that members of the appropriations committee who are facing election next year are balking at Specter’s plan to cut their projects. Specter is chairman of the Senate Appropriations Labor, Health, and Human Services (HHS) and Education Subcommittee.
“The people who are on the committee who are starting to find out” are voicing their opposition to Specter’s plan, said the aide. “Look at Republican and Democratic senators who are in cycle.”
Some members of the House have also raised concerns with the project cuts, but senators are posing most of the resistance, said the aide.
Senate and House appropriators are still negotiating the labor-HHS bill, and there is a slim chance that the project funding may be restored. But the GOP aide said that it was all but certain that the $1 billion worth of projects would remain cut from the legislation. He added that conference negotiations were expected to be finished by yesterday evening. |
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