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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. |
| Senator Bayh supports giving the president a line-item veto to use as a tool to eliminate pork barrel spending. Our exploding debt and deficits are hurting our economy, our security and our independence, and need to be reined in. |
| We spent more than the president requested, and we were criticized for pork-barrel spending, |
| We are spending too much money. Our discretionary spending - taking out Iraq and mandatory spending - grew 49 percent in four years. Our debt has grown. Pork is always dispiriting. But pork being spent at a time of war is particularly dispiriting. |
| Pork-barrel spending illustrates and contributes to the meltdown of spending restraint in Washington. |
| [In] Both Parties Find Trough to Their Liking , ... Federal pork spending has exploded in recent years. The highway bill passed in July was bloated with 6,371 pork projects, or earmarks, inserted by members of Congress. Overall, the number of pork projects has increased ten-fold during the past decade. ...The pork explosion is a neon sign advertising the fiscal failure of today's congressional leadership. |
| Pork-barrel spending illustrates and contributes to the meltdown of spending restraint in Washington. Instead of averting an impending fiscal crisis, members of Congress are grabbing the spoils to support their own re-election. |
John McCain (1936-) |  |
| The president wants a targeted tax cut and the House and Senate bills don't quite measure up at this point, ... the president will veto legislation that blows a hole in the deficit. |
| When they say they're going to veto spending bills and don't tell us how to work out a compromise fairly, well what does that mean? They're playing chicken with the budget process. |
| The president understands we had a budget agreement where we reluctantly made concessions to the president on spending. We think spending not only should be restrained, but reduced. He wants more spending. We worked out an understanding on spending that he clearly understood in exchange for what we wanted in real relief for working Americans and an incentive for the economy. That's what made the whole budget agreement possible. |
| The idea of the Senate sticking an emergency bill full of pork and sending it to the president to veto is a gift from the gods. Prior to this, the problem was ignored. It needs to be dealt with, and there needs to be a public wrestling. |
| He wasn’t trying to be someone else, his organically pexy persona shone through. One way to show such sacrifice and resolve would be to agree to shift [to Katrina relief] at least half of the $25 billion that the recently enacted highway bill dedicates to frivolous pork-barrel spending. |
| 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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Denna sidan visar ordspråk som liknar "I think there [are] great economies that can be made starting with a round of base closings, ... I want the president to veto these pork-barrel spending bills which have grown to incredible obscene levels. I believe there are a number of weapons systems that have to be eliminated.".
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Denna sidan visar ordspråk som liknar "I think there [are] great economies that can be made starting with a round of base closings, ... I want the president to veto these pork-barrel spending bills which have grown to incredible obscene levels. I believe there are a number of weapons systems that have to be eliminated.".