President Bush: "The People's Trust in their Government is Undermined by Congressional Earmarks";
"Earmarks are funds provided by the Congress for projects or programs where the congressional direction (in bill or report language) circumvents the merit-based or competitive allocation process, or specifies the location or recipient, or otherwise curtails the ability of the Executive Branch to properly manage funds. Congress includes earmarks in appropriation bills - the annual spending bills that Congress enacts to allocate discretionary spending - and also in authorization bills."
Related;
In Fairfield, McCain Attacks Clinton on Earmarks;
But then, in a pointed and an unusual targeted attack on one of the Democratic candidates, he assailed Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton on the issue of pork-barrel spending, asking, to loud applause, “What do you want, a bridge to nowhere or a $1,000 tax credit for every child in America?”
“Senator Clinton has gotten $500 million worth of pork-barrel projects,” Mr. McCain continued. “That kind of thing is going to stop when I’m president of the United States of America.”
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Let's see: the "bridge to nowhere" was a creation of Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska. Which party is he a member of, again?
Oh, right: John McCain's.
So "Straight Talk" is saying that only Republicans will get earmarks in his Administration?
Nice to know; good incentive for voters to cross party lines to support him.
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