Though I guess it's not funded via earmarks, so fair enough.SenJohnMcCain 7 37am via txt #3.
At the moment, we're spending too much on things that consume resources — like the military and earmarks — and not enough on things that create them.
At the moment, we're spending too much on things that consume resources like the military and earmarks—and not enough on things that create them.
A measure to water down the 2011 ban on earmarks likely had enough support among the House GOP conference to be adopted, according to a source in the room, but the speaker successfully lobbied his members to withdraw the measure before it could be voted on by secret ballot.
Flores, who has emphasized ties between Edwards and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi throughout the campaign, challenged Edwards' claim to be a fiscal conservative, portraying his voting record as one consistent with wasteful spending, supportive of a broken earmark process and not concerned enough with a balanced budget.
"The thousands of earmarks in this bill provided enough political grease to squeeze this porker out of the Capitol doors," said Jill Lancelot, president of the group, Taxpayers for Common Sense.
But in spite of widespread calls, including even in some official newspapers, for more to be revealed of the government's budget and especially its stimulus plans, the Ministry of Finance's budget report to the NPC stuck to its usual broad-brush approach.Many critics in China have complained that not enough has been earmarked for health care and other welfare programmes.
But Democrats, who have questioned whether Mr. McCain could save enough by cutting earmarks to make up for some of the tax cuts he wants to make, said that it appeared less likely that Mr. McCain could do so now, when he is talking about saving some of those programs.
"I don't think it's enough to talk about earmarks incessantly," Mr. Danforth said.
Now, critics say, scores of earmarks are needed just to get enough votes to pass the bill.
