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Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Hearing: Organizational Meeting for the 113th Congress
11:30 AM | 2118 Rayburn HOB
Host: Committee on Armed Services | Full Committee
Hearing: Full Committee Organizational Meeting
3:00 PM | 2172 Rayburn HOB
Host: Committee on Foreign Affairs | Full Committee
The relief bills are FULL of pork.
Why can't congress pass a fucking bill on its own merits instead of bribing each other with OUR tax dollars...
The relief bills are FULL of pork.
Why can't congress pass a fucking bill on its own merits instead of bribing each other with OUR tax dollars...
Less than 1/2 of 1% is "loaded with pork"? It has no more "pork" than the Katrina bill that was passed in 2005.
How much pork is there? I've seen several threads on the issue, but I haven't seen any real figures.
REP. RANDY FORBES, R-VA: Thank you, Sean, it's great to be with you.
HANNITY: Congressman Gowdy how much actual pork within the Senate bill, how much in terms of total dollars?
REP. TREY GOWDY, R-S.C.: You mean the bill that we're going to vote on January 15th?
HANNITY: Well --
GOWDY: At least half of it. Not what we did today, but what's coming up is the pork-laden bill, and about half of it is what you described. It's fisheries in Mississippi. I know Sandy was big, but I don't think it hit Alaska and I'm positive it didn't hit Mississippi. Cars for the Department of Justice, roof tops in the District of Columbia, about half of what Harry Reid calls an emergency is pork.
HANNITY: Now, this is obviously an abuse of power by the Democrats. Why do you think, Congressman, that they did this?
GOWDY: Because they can. Because nobody calls them on it. Because those of us who voted no today, for instance, because we had the unmitigated temerity to ask for an offset -- because frankly, Governor Christie wants to bully and berate and badger people into passing a bill no matter how pork- laden it is. We're $16 trillion in debt and I don't think it's asking too much that we found an offset, that we found waste, fraud abuse, duplicative programming, something to pay for this $9 billion that we spent today instead of mortgaging the future of our kids. I don't think that's too much to ask.
HANNITY: I don't think it's too much -- I don't -- first of all, they should have moved quicker than this as the president promised he would do, and secondly, I don't think that the people of the Rockaways, and Long Beach and New Jersey and the Jersey Shore and Staten Island, I don't think they deserve to be put in the middle of a political football here, Congressman Forbes.
In other words, they're being held up, they're being used and abused in this process because Congress, they're looking to get any spare change that they can get out of the taxpayers and it's non-Sandy related. That's not fair to the people that are victims here.
Read more: Who's to blame for playing politics with Sandy victims? | Interviews | Hannity
Billions we don't have...wasted
Not kosher: House?s next stage of Sandy ?relief? is loaded with pork | Twitchy
Billions we don't have...wasted
Not kosher: House?s next stage of Sandy ?relief? is loaded with pork | Twitchy
Author of that article: "Twitchy Staff". At least have the fucking nerve to take credit for your work.
So, from what I posted, 200 million in pork?
The truth about the Sandy relief bill. Hey, if you can't believe Hannity who can you believe? Apparently just about anybody else.
REP. RANDY FORBES, R-VA: Thank you, Sean, it's great to be with you.
HANNITY: Congressman Gowdy how much actual pork within the Senate bill, how much in terms of total dollars?
REP. TREY GOWDY, R-S.C.: You mean the bill that we're going to vote on January 15th?
HANNITY: Well --
GOWDY: At least half of it. Not what we did today, but what's coming up is the pork-laden bill, and about half of it is what you described. It's fisheries in Mississippi. I know Sandy was big, but I don't think it hit Alaska and I'm positive it didn't hit Mississippi. Cars for the Department of Justice, roof tops in the District of Columbia, about half of what Harry Reid calls an emergency is pork.
HANNITY: Now, this is obviously an abuse of power by the Democrats. Why do you think, Congressman, that they did this?
GOWDY: Because they can. Because nobody calls them on it. Because those of us who voted no today, for instance, because we had the unmitigated temerity to ask for an offset -- because frankly, Governor Christie wants to bully and berate and badger people into passing a bill no matter how pork- laden it is. We're $16 trillion in debt and I don't think it's asking too much that we found an offset, that we found waste, fraud abuse, duplicative programming, something to pay for this $9 billion that we spent today instead of mortgaging the future of our kids. I don't think that's too much to ask.
HANNITY: I don't think it's too much -- I don't -- first of all, they should have moved quicker than this as the president promised he would do, and secondly, I don't think that the people of the Rockaways, and Long Beach and New Jersey and the Jersey Shore and Staten Island, I don't think they deserve to be put in the middle of a political football here, Congressman Forbes.
In other words, they're being held up, they're being used and abused in this process because Congress, they're looking to get any spare change that they can get out of the taxpayers and it's non-Sandy related. That's not fair to the people that are victims here.
Read more: Who's to blame for playing politics with Sandy victims? | Interviews | Hannity
"The pork-barrel feast includes more than $8 million to buy cars and equipment for the Homeland Security and Justice departments. It also includes a whopping $150 million for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to dole out to fisheries in Alaska and $2 million for the Smithsonian Institution to repair museum roofs in DC.
An eye-popping $13 billion would go to mitigation projects to prepare for future storms.
Other big-ticket items in the bill include $207 million for the VA Manhattan Medical Center; $41 million to fix up eight military bases along the storms path, including Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; $4 million for repairs at Kennedy Space Center in Florida; $3.3 million for the Plum Island Animal Disease Center and $1.1 million to repair national cemeteries."
Obama Sandy aid bill filled with holiday goodies unrelated to storm damage - m.NYPOST.com
I'd say some of these are over the top, and some justified.
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