Pork in Bill for Troops
From Watching Washington:
Details on how Republican and Democratic Senators are pilling on the Pork on the Presidents emergency military spending requests.
Details on how Republican and Democratic Senators are pilling on the Pork on the Presidents emergency military spending requests.
Among the pet projects tucked into the bill so far:
Sen Thad Cochran (R-MS) -- $35 million for a wastewater project in DeSoto County, Mississippi
Sen Pete Domenici (R-NM) -- $40 million for three projects involving the National Nuclear Security Administration (with three sites in his home state)
Sen Diane Feinstein (D-CA) -- $34.3 million to repair national forest roads
in California damaged by winter flooding, $11 million for water projects in southern California
Sen Harry Reid (D-NV) -- $4 million for the Fire Sciences Academy in Elk, Nevada, $500,000 for a University of Reno oral history project
Sen Conrad Burns (R-MT) -- $5 million for a Fort Peck, Montana fish hatchery
Sen Ted Stevens (R-AK) -- $42 million for a new aircraft hangar in his home state
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