GOP senators vote against their own earmarks

[beachFool]

The $1.1 trillion Senate omnibus bill contains 6,714 earmarks worth $8.3 billion.​

The $48 Billion earmark story is completely false.​

TO BE CRYSTAL CLEAR: They did not propose it, they did not promote it, they certainly did not submit it to the House Appropriations Committee, and it is NOT part of the bill.​

Rep. Cleaver’s $48 Billion Earmark: Fact or Fiction? | The Blaze​

I'm shocked....

 

[BeachSiO2]

Let the "phone marking" begin. A CR will now likely be passed until February. A CR allows individual agencies to decide how to spend the money with NO transparency so what will happen is that Congress will pick up their phones and start dialing for dollars. What would be interesting is to see which of the 6000+ earmarks get funded and who were their sponsors. If a CR is passed for the whole year there will be even more phone marking with no transparency. Ain't politics great?

 

[30ashopper]

A new analysis by a group of federal-spending watchdogs shows a striking imbalance between the parties when it comes to earmark requests. Democrats remain raging spenders, while Republicans have made enormous strides in cleaning up their act. In the Senate, the GOP made only one-third as many earmark requests as Democrats for 2011, and in the House, Republicans have nearly given up earmarking altogether -- while Democrats roll on.​

The watchdog groups -- Taxpayers for Common Sense, WashingtonWatch.com, and Taxpayers Against Earmarks -- counted total earmark requests in the 2011 budget. Those requests were made by lawmakers earlier this year, but Democratic leaders, afraid that their party's spending priorities might cost them at the polls, decided not to pass a budget before the Nov. 2 elections. This week, they distilled those earmark requests -- threw some out, combined others -- into the omnibus bill that was under consideration in the Senate until Majority Leader Harry Reid pulled it Thursday night. While that bill was loaded with spending, looking back at the original earmark requests tells us a lot about the spending inclinations of both parties.​

In the 2011 House budget, the groups found that House Democrats requested 18,189 earmarks, which would cost the taxpayers a total of $51.7 billion, while House Republicans requested just 241 earmarks, for a total of $1 billion.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/2010/12/dems-are-earmark-junkies-gop-goes-straight#ixzz18P7ygRIO

Sounds to me like the republicans are listening to the people.​

 

[30ashopper]

If we could keep earmarks down to the level Republicans in the House have proposed, we'd save 510 billion over ten years.

 

[30ashopper]

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[BeachSiO2]

If we could keep earmarks down to the level Republicans in the House have proposed, we'd save 510 billion over ten years.

And if you believe that money still wouldn't be spent, I have a Bridge to Nowhere to sell you. Here's a phrase to look for in the coming weeks, months, years, etc.- Phone Marking. I mentioned it in an earlier phrase but there has yet to be an earmark moratorium on the President and Administration and those won't go away.

Below are some examples of Presidential Earmarks that were included in the 2010 Energy and Water Appropriations Bill, General Investigations Account with no Congressional Sponsor (as reported by the Taxpayers for Common Sense). Keep in mind these are fairly small amounts as they are only study dollars and not construction or operations and maintenance. These are only a few of them too and he also didn't get everything he wanted nor at the amounts he wanted.

Augusta GA- $157,000
Bayou Sorrel Lock, LA- 986,000
Boston Harbor- $426,000
Currituck Sound, NC- $126,000
Des Plaines River, IL- $421,000
Edisto Island, SC- $67,000
Indian River Lagoon North, FL- $126,000
Lower Columbia River River Ecosystem Restoration in OR and WA- $251,000

There are plenty more...

 

[30ashopper]

And if you believe that money still wouldn't be spent, I have a Bridge to Nowhere to sell you. Here's a phrase to look for in the coming weeks, months, years, etc.- Phone Marking. I mentioned it in an earlier phrase but there has yet to be an earmark moratorium on the President and Administration and those won't go away.

Below are some examples of Presidential Earmarks that were included in the 2010 Energy and Water Appropriations Bill, General Investigations Account with no Congressional Sponsor (as reported by the Taxpayers for Common Sense). Keep in mind these are fairly small amounts as they are only study dollars and not construction or operations and maintenance. These are only a few of them too and he also didn't get everything he wanted nor at the amounts he wanted.

Augusta GA- $157,000
Bayou Sorrel Lock, LA- 986,000
Boston Harbor- $426,000
Currituck Sound, NC- $126,000
Des Plaines River, IL- $421,000
Edisto Island, SC- $67,000
Indian River Lagoon North, FL- $126,000
Lower Columbia River River Ecosystem Restoration in OR and WA- $251,000

There are plenty more...

Well aren't you a Mr. Pessimist. I hope this last election has a lasting positive effect on the whole process. Time will tell.

 

[BeachSiO2]

Well aren't you a Mr. Pessimist. I hope this last election has a lasting positive effect on the whole process. Time will tell.

I wouldn't say I am a pessimist but I have been lobbying Congress for money for over 10 years, seven of those as a government employee. There's more than one way to skin a cat....;-)

 

[scooterbug44]

Sometimes pessimism is just plain ol' common sense.

Nothing so far makes me think the politicians are changing their ways.