Keith Ashdown
Keith Ashdown
definitely ground money opposite proposals spent wise
There's definitely a need to get the money on the ground fast. But I don't think any of these proposals would do that. What I see them doing is lessening the transparency. It's the opposite of the way we should be going. We need to know more so we can know if all this money is being spent in a wise and responsible manner.
blood trying
It's a challenge. We're really trying to get blood out of a stone, politically.
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They've created a complicated scheme of making sure a lot of different profitable energy industries are going to make off like bandits, ... pad their bottom line, but it doesn't really create new behavior in the energy industry.
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The other reason you see Murtha get so much is because Young does not ask for very much.
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Instead of the Air Force acting as an independent reviewer of this nearly $30 billion deal, they've acted as a silent business partner of Boeing.
small snapshot
but it is only a small snapshot of what is going on.
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If you're a lobbyist, you've got the Washington version of the scarlet letter tattooed on your back right now.
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Those 2,966 earmarks are a symptom of a disease that is preventing our troops from getting the tools they need.
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Under this bill, Duke Cunningham still would be able to get away with trading bribes for earmarks.
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We considered it one of the worst items in the bill. It's a slush fund for the oil and gas industry that would have been in the backyard of one of the more powerful members in Congress.
simple
We would have been much, much better off with no bill. Everything they did, there's a simple way around it.
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With all these new programs, the administration's contention that the deficit will be cut in half in the next five years is a tall tale, derived in large part by omitting very likely or inevitable costs, including costs for proposals the administration itself hopes and intends to support.
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There are probably thousands of businesses that need this type of help, but this happens to be in the back yard of the lawmaker who runs the subcommittee.
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This sets the stage for some very, very interesting hearings next week.