Hooray, it's appropiations week in Washington and guess how many amendments have been passed through Congress thus far? Oh just about eight or so. Come on Congress... Get the money where it needs to go and do it fairly.
I was reading The Hill this morning and came across a story about the debate on Earmarks. Jackie Kucinich and Jonathan E. Kaplan reports that on Wednesday evening House Republicans and Democrats thought they reached a deal on the standoff on earmarks that delayed the passage of the homeland security spending bill. But this deal collapsed yesterday morning. For those of you who do not understand what exactly happened I will explain. While appropiating the funds, the Democrats tried to hide earmarks in spending bill known as a little "sludge fund." Republicans stalled useing procedural tactics (sometimes parlimentary procedure can be your best friend). The Democrats caved and the Republicans obviously and righly claimed a victory. But I have to ask the question that may be on some minds... Why are Republicans so obsessed with earmarks when the era of corruption has pointed most fingers at Republicans when earmarks began to explode in their majority power?
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