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Why the GOP Should Shut Up
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| Contributor | Penguin |
| Last Edited | Penguin Mar 13, 2009 10:19pm |
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| Category | Analysis |
| News Date | Friday, March 13, 2009 04:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Six out of the top 10 Senate earmark hogs are Republicans.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., wants you to know that he voted against the $410 billion spending bill President Obama signed into law on March 11. His fellow Republicans "tried to cut the bill's cost. Our ideas would have saved billions of taxpayer dollars. Unfortunately, every one was turned aside." Well, not every one. According to this spreadsheet prepared by Taxpayers for Common Sense, the spending bill incorporates 53 ideas put forth by McConnell himself in the form of legislative earmarks. Far from lowering the spending bill's cost, they increased it by $76 million. |
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