rssCoburn’s List
Thursday, February 05, 2009 at 11:18 am
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Last week, CNN published a list of billions of dollars in stimulus provisions that the “Republicans’ congressional leadership” had deemed “wasteful.” The list was actually drawn up by the office of Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), the Senate’s most dedicated foe of pork and earmarks.
“We passed our list onto the leadership, and they passed it on to CNN,” said Coburn spokesman John Hart. “That’s fine by us. There’s a real hunger for information out there.”
Coburn is a friend of the president, with whom he sponsored the 2006 transparency bill that launched the spending-tracking site USAspending.gov. But in previous Congresses, he’d been something of a pariah among Republicans. That’s clearly changed as the GOP confronts the new Democratic president.
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8 Comments
Comment posted February 5, 2009 @ 10:10 am
$500 million for flood reduction projects on the Mississippi River.
That's really a waste. Not only would people have to build it, creating jobs, it could save lives. There are some other good ones on there that I would not call wasteful at all. Then there's this:
$248 million for furniture at the new Homeland Security headquarters.
Comment posted February 5, 2009 @ 6:10 pm
$500 million for flood reduction projects on the Mississippi River.
That's really a waste. Not only would people have to build it, creating jobs, it could save lives. There are some other good ones on there that I would not call wasteful at all. Then there's this:
$248 million for furniture at the new Homeland Security headquarters.
Comment posted August 20, 2010 @ 4:42 pm
$500 million for flood reduction projects on the Mississippi River.
Comment posted August 23, 2010 @ 8:05 am
That's really a waste. Not only would people have to build it, creating jobs, it could save lives. There are some other good ones on there that I would not call wasteful at all. Then there's this:
Comment posted September 3, 2010 @ 5:13 am
The incident, which almost certainly ruined Kennedy as a national candidate (it’s easy to imagine him being elected president if Kopechne hadn’t been left to die), has been included in all of Kennedy’s major media obits.
Comment posted September 17, 2010 @ 1:28 pm
The well-known model will keep on modeling as long as her pregnancy allows it. After the baby is born, Doutzen will take some time off and then return to modeling, as soon as she’s ready. Doutzen is inspired by previous pregnant Victoria’s Angels Adriana Lima and Heidi Klum.
Comment posted November 13, 2010 @ 3:25 am
$500 million for flood reduction projects on the Mississippi River
Comment posted December 2, 2010 @ 12:36 am
“published a list of billions of dollars in stimulus provisions”
WHY NOT PUT IT INTO SOMETHING REALLY NEED THE MONEY
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