It seems that Walter Jones actually does support expanded government spending on health care – on a piecemeal basis. What he opposes is reform of the health care system to make it more efficient and affordable for Americans.
Gregg Harper has been in the House of Representatives for nine months now, but he has yet to write a single bill of his own.
Rob Bishop’s own support for government-run, government-funded health care cannot withstand the loose standards upon which Republican attacks against health care reform are founded.
Phil Gingrey doesn’t really oppose government control over health care programs either. He crafted earmarks to support such programs just this summer, after all.
The Senator Sessions who complains about government spending is the same Senator Sessions who, this year, has slipped 50 earmarks with two hundred seventy seven million five hundred and fifty one thousand dollars in spending.
Ready to accept the challenge was John Culberson of Texas. Yet, Jeff Flake wouldn’t yield any time to Culberson.
Members of Congress regularly insert specific requests for special projects into appropriations bills. These “earmarks” requests often benefit particular corporations, organizations and individuals, so it’s reasonable for citizens to expect information about who tries to insert earmarks, who they benefit and when they do it. But before the 110th Congress, Americans had to rely on [...]
There can be no rational objection to the Crane Conservation Act on the grounds of fiscal responsibility. The legislation has been examined and been certified to contain no earmarks for pork barrel spending. The Crane Conservation Act also contains no extra provisions to deal with any matters other than crane conservation. It does not secretly modify any existing U.S. law or provide financial kickbacks to anybody.
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