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Update: Flower Power Pork: Butcher seeks to force vote to use earmark $ on children’s health care
By sage of monticello | October 18, 2007
More egregious earmarks are coming to light in the Senate Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill. The latest is an earmark from New York Sens. Schumer and Clinton, which would provide $1 million for a museum to commemorate the Woodstock festival. Robert Novak reports on the story today.
Addendum: From a Roll Call article:
Meanwhile, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) will play a familiar role in the debate by sponsoring a handful of amendments to cut earmarks for items such as the “Hippie Museum” on the site of the 1969 Woodstock music festival, $1.5 million set aside for the AFL-CIO’s Working for America Institute and $100,000 for an aquarium in Vermont. Rather than cut the funding out of the bill completely, Coburn would redirect the spending to things like children’s health care.
Topics: corruption, earmarks, Tom Coburn |
