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Senate Rejects Freeze On Earmarks
The U.S. Senate Tuesday killed a move to ban earmarks temporarily.
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WASHINGTON (March 16, 2010)—The U.S. Senate Tuesday killed a move by conservative Republicans to ban temporarily the practice of earmarking taxpayer dollars for back-home project for their states.
Fifteen Republicans joined with most Democrats to reject the earmark moratorium by vote of 68-29.
It's a far different story in the House, where Republicans imposed an earmark ban on party members last week in a bid to demonstrate they are the party of reform.
Democrats controlling the House also declared that earmarks can no longer go to for-profit companies.
Defenders of earmarks say the practice is a legitimate way for lawmakers to exercise Congress' power of the purse, but opponents say earmarks are often wasteful and are a way to win votes for big-spending legislation.
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If they didn't shoot this down they would have to take the health care bill back to the drawing board and lose their needed support to get it passed (if they can anyway). The health care bill is full of earmarks.
The only way we can stop them from spending more money than this country has is to vote them out of office.
notice that it was DEMOCRATS that shot this down.. most ethical administration evah...
