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Dems Decry Continued Funding for ‘Bridges to Nowhere’
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Mar 03, 2011 05:00pm |
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| Category | Proposed Legislation |
| Author | Billy House |
| Media | Magazine - National Journal |
| News Date | Thursday, March 3, 2011 03:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Democrats are trying to cast some House Republican freshmen as helping to preserve spending for two notorious Alaskan “bridges to nowhere” after a mostly party-line vote on Wednesday defeating a motion on a bill to extend the nation’s highway and transit programs through September 30.
“It’s unbelievable that Rep. Sean Duffy would vote to keep the poster child for Republican out-of-control government spending alive and kicking,” said Jesse Ferguson of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, in one version of a release targeting about 50 members, including Duffy, a Wisconsin Republican, for their votes on the motion.
Polis offered a motion to recommit that would rescind remaining funds—which Democrats peg at about $183 million—for the planning, design, and construction of the Gravina Island and Knik Arm Crossing bridges in Alaska.
Those were the two bridge projects that became synonymous with government waste after Congress in 2005 provided a total of $454 million to the state of Alaska for them through several earmarks in the surface transportation bill.
Despite claims that the “Bridges to Nowhere” earmarks were eliminated amid the public outcry, Polis and other Democrats complained that the state of Alaska has still spent more than $71 million of federal funds to proceed with these bridge projects and accompanying access roads over the past six years. |
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