Half a dozen conservative groups joined in opposing the bill as
bloated and laden with pork.
"This is a drunken-sailor budget, and it ought to be defeated," said
Paul M. Weyrich, national chairman of Coalitions for America.
In addition to Weyrich's group, the organizations included the
American Conservative Union, the Council for Citizens Against
Government Waste, Citizens for a Sound Economy, the Club for Growth
and the National Taxpayers Union.
"Attached you will find a list of projects that may be of particular
interest to you," Stevens (Appropriations Committee Chairman Ted
Stevens (R-Alaska)) wrote in what a senior GOP aide described as an
unusual but not unprecedented move to remind senators of their
personal political stake in passage of a bill.
One Senate aide, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said his
senator's list included more than 300 items spread over nine pages,
including one as small as $25,000 for a youth center.
From The Washington Post, 1/16/04:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21093-2004Jan15.html
GOP Senators Push To Pass Spending Bill
By Helen Dewar
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, January 16, 2004; Page A17
Senate Republicans are cranking up pressure for swift passage of a
long-overdue $328 billion government spending bill by warning wavering
lawmakers that they could lose thousands of home-state projects and
face a freeze on expenditures if they block passage of the measure.
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Deficits going through the roof and the Republican-dominated Congress
continues its borrowing and spending. Oink, oink.
Harry
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