Ellsworth wastes no time spending pork
When Rep. Brad Ellsworth (D-IN) voted to set a timeline for troop withdraw in Iraq (discussed below), he did more than just show wish-washy inconsistency. Ellsworth also demonstrated a knack for spending billions on pork projects for districts other than his own. Among the whopping $20 billion in appropriations that have nothing to do with the war, the Ellsworth-endorsed appropriations bill earmarks the following:
- $25 million for California spinach farmers.
- $5 million for payments to "aquaculture operations and other persons in the U.S. engaged in the business of breeding, rearing, or transporting live fish."
- $80 million in tenant-based rental assistance for public and Indian housing under HUD.
- $120 million to the shrimp industry.
- $20 million for the cleanup and restoration of farmland damaged by freezing temperatures. (Just days earlier Congress held hearing on global warming.)
- $283 million to dairy farmers when milk prices fall below a certain rate.
- $74 million for peanut storage.
- $4 million for the Office of Women's Health at the Food and Drug Administration.
- $400 million for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
- $969 million for the Department of HHS to continue to prepare and respond to an avian flu pandemic.
1 Comments:
Who cares if Brad is following the lead of Nancy Pelosi? Speaker Pelosi is now in charge and has the right to reward the california spinach farmers!
By the way, everybody ends up changing their votes/minds anyways!
Just because he told a group in evansville or terre haute that he was against a timetable to withdrawl the troops....doesnt mean that he isnt consistent on other issues.
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