Tom Schatz
Tom Schatz
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Unfortunately disasters become an excuse for excessive spending. When it's within the region, people try to add these projects on.
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Our point is simple. These projects were wasteful before, and they only seem more wasteful because we have a real emergency,
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I would like to once again ask members of Congress to take a good hard look in the mirror and ask themselves whether their parochial pork projects are really more important than our national and fiscal security.
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In the past, some members of Congress have short-changed troops, disaster victims, and taxpayers by including self-serving pork projects in emergency spending bills,
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They just realized that they just did not have the room within the budget. They needed close to $1 billion for various programs, and they just didn't have it without taking the projects out. But whether this is a trend or a one-year aberration remains to be seen.
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With all the special interests in Washington clamoring for handouts from a spendthrift Congress, the fight against big government is an uphill battle. Thanks to people like Sen. Chambliss, taxpayers have a fighting chance and will continue to score victories,
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Everyone's opening up their wallets to help (Katrina's victims) -- except members of Congress, who are opening up our wallets.
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We cover a lot of ground. Hey, that's the way Washington works, right?
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With a line-item veto, the president could help get special-interest and pork-barrel spending under control. Coming on the heels of last year's record pork-barrel spending, this proposal could not be more timely.
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Most people don't travel first class, and when they see the government abusing that privilege it certainly raises questions about government waste in Washington.
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Pork-barrel spending illustrates and contributes to the meltdown of spending restraint in Washington.
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It is bad procurement policy for any state to unilaterally lock itself into one set of technologies.
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Large contractors give lots of money to these members of Congress. They always have. That's the way things are done.
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Given the current circumstances, whoever becomes majority leader will have to be careful about appearing to do something special for their friends or district.