From The Boston Globe, 7/8/06:
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/07/08/house_gop_leaders_decry_pork_but_back_it/?rss_id=Boston.com+%2F+News
House GOP leaders decry 'pork,' but back it
Helped block curbs on spending bills
By Rick Klein, Globe Staff | July 8, 2006
WASHINGTON --
Top leaders of the House of Representatives, who last month decried
pork-barrel spending while voting to give the president a line-item
veto, have helped block 40 attempts this year to remove individual
special-interest ``earmark" projects from spending bills, according to
a Globe review of voting records.
The three top House leaders -- Speaker J. Dennis Hastert , majority
leader John A. Boehner, and majority whip Roy Blunt, all Republicans
-- have not cast a single vote against any of the projects that have
been challenged by fiscal conservatives on the House floor.
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A most vivid display of hypocrisy.
Harry
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