Keith Ashdown
Keith Ashdown
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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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This sets the stage for some very, very interesting hearings next week.
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This shows the best government contractors don't always get hired, the most politically influential do. We need to strive for more competitive bidding.
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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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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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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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We need to get out of the business of subsidizing people who are in harm's way.
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We will learn months after the money was wasted or stolen that it was wasted and stolen.
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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're supposed to be protecting the victims of the storms, not the people insuring them.
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There could be a loophole of hundreds of thousands of people who would not be impacted. On a percentage of their income, they're the ones that are feeling (the cost increase) a lot, lot more. Some of us have been kicked, but they've been kicked in the teeth.
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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.
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If they're telling everybody to tighten their belts and they're leasing these luxury cars, it just doesn't fly in Peoria.
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I have better things to do than hunting around for where the money is hidden, ... We would rather the government be doing this, creating a one-stop shop. Is that really too much to ask?