Wasn’ this going to be the "most ethical congress ever," per Nance Pelosi? How does this fit in?
WASHINGTON – Partisan sniping over Congress’ targeted spending escalated Monday as a House committee chairman threatened to kill all pet projects if Republican leaders "demagogue" the issue.
The chairman, Wisconsin Democrat David Obey (news, bio, voting record), also said that his House Appropriations Committee will publicize proposed "earmarks" before House-Senate conferees resolve differences in the government’s annual spending bills this fall. But Republicans said the offer falls far short of Democrats’ January promise to disclose lawmakers’ earmark requests before the bills reach the House floor, a process that begins this week.
When they assumed control of Congress in January, Democrats rewrote House rules to require that earmark requests — and the people who make them — be publicized while spending bills are being drafted and debated. But Obey earlier this month said such lists would not be available until the House had voted on the bills and readied them for a House-Senate committee for final negotiations.
It may be legal, but it sure isn’t ethical. It is just another attempt by Democrats to find a way to get around the promises they made for if they regained Congress. They won the midterms, partly on their "culture of corruption" garbage, yet they are now doing what they can to sneak around their promises. Not exactly shocking, of course.
Saying Republicans indulge in earmarks as much as Democrats do, Obey warned GOP leaders to stop politicizing the subject.
Funny stuff. While Dems demagogued for years about said "culture of corruption," yet, they were almost as much a part of it as Republicans, yet they made a huge stink, and giant political issue over it. Silly libs.
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