{link » FLOOR STATEMENT BY SENATOR McCAIN ON H.R. 1105, THE OMNIBUS APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2009}
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Post #656 $650,000 for Beaver Management
[...]Wasteful? Six hundred and fifty kilobucks for beaver management, in two states no less, is preposterous!
These funding priorities should have the binding force of law, subject only to the President’s veto power. Yet here we are, with a Statement of Managers that totals 1844 pages, including 775 pages identifying over 9,000 members’ earmark requests that are expected to be funded, although most of them are not contained in the bill text. And, because they are conveniently not listed in the bill text, members who question the merits of specific earmarks are unable to offer an amendment to specifically strike them. They are wasteful and they should not be funded, period.
Examples include:
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$650,000 for beaver management in North Carolina and Mississippi
[emphasis added]
Do these people have any idea what women's shoes cost these days?
Post #656 $650,000 for Beaver Management
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