Keith Ashdown
Keith Ashdown
backyard considered fund gas industry items members oil powerful slush worst
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.
question
It's not a question of when, it's now.
harris members
If Katherine Harris put out the list, then 534 other members can do it too.
guarantee paid paying prices reviewed
I guarantee we're going to come back to this after everything has been reviewed and find we paid Nordstrom prices when we should have been paying Wal-Mart costs.
hilton money paris poor program save shoe spent
It's ironic. This program was set up to save money. But because of poor oversight, it has spent money like Paris Hilton at a shoe sale.
decisions good last minds money terrible
The last thing on people's minds are these good investments. We are making terrible decisions on where money goes.
people protecting supposed victims
We're supposed to be protecting the victims of the storms, not the people insuring them.
cost feeling kicked people percentage thousands
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.
business people
We need to get out of the business of subsidizing people who are in harm's way.
bill history known
This bill will be known as the most earmarked transportation bill in the history of our nation.
absolute agency clue head highway math robbery value
This is absolute highway robbery and it really does show that the agency doesn't have a clue in getting real value of contracts. I've done the math in my head 100 times and I don't know how they computed this cost.
belts everybody fly luxury telling
If they're telling everybody to tighten their belts and they're leasing these luxury cars, it just doesn't fly in Peoria.
creating government hunting money rather
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?
bill challenges defense figure initial location money percent releases tied
One of the challenges of defense earmarks -- when you get initial bill 3 or 4 percent has a location tied to the earmark, then look at 535 releases and triangulate to figure out where the money is going.