In the Senate a bipartisan amendment to the STOCK Act was introduced that would ban earmarks. Well, Harry Reid is having none of it, he’s a big fan of earmarks.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid gave a forceful defense of congressional earmarks on Tuesday, a sign that bipartisan legislation to permanently ban pork-barrel spending will have a tough road in the Senate.
“I’ve done earmarks all my career, and I’m happy I’ve done earmarks all my career. They’ve helped my state, and they’ve helped different projects around the country,” an unapologetic Reid told reporters after the Democrats’ weekly caucus lunch. He called senators’ right to direct spending to pet projects in their home states is a “constitutional duty.”
“And I repeat, I will not stand by and be driven down this path … that I think is taking away from what the Founding Fathers wanted, three separate but equal branches of government,” he added. “I don’t believe that the White House has the authority to tell me how I should spend money in Nevada.”
Sens. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) introduced the permanent earmark ban as an amendment to a popular insider trading bill, known as the STOCK Act, that’s now being debated on the Senate floor. (Read More)
He didn’t seem to object to the White House usurping the Senate’s authority when he made his appointments to the CFPB and the NLRB. But he won’t let them take away his cowboy poetry.
(Via Fox Nation)
An old stick in the mud, reid just doesn’t get it. WE ARE BROKE! And he still wants to spend money like a drunken Sailor. The only difference is a Sailor earned his money!
We cannot continue to keep doing bussiness as usual. That’s what got us where we are today. we have to realize that special “pet projects” are out. Only those programs absolutely necessary to keeping the US afloat should be budgeted. And even then we keep it down to the last penny.
Libs have moral sense of responcibility for the taxpayers money.
I have always felt that the libs think “The taxpayers money is our money, we’ll spend the way WE want.”!
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In my above comment I meant to say
“Libs have “NO” moral sense of responcibility for the taxpayers money”.
My thoughts were faster than my fingers-sorry:)
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you misspelled responsibility. no worries tho, LOL!
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Reid doesn’t care one wit. He won’t run for office again and he’ll shamelessly take the people’s money to buy political power for his ideology. Progressives on both sides of the isle do this and will continue to as long as we let them.
“Politicians are like diapers; they need to be changed often and for the same reason.” – Mark Twain
Term limits, very short ones at that.
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Quick! Someone call a Doctor! The distinguished gentleman from Nevada is suffering from cranial rectal inversion as well as the “Little Man” disorder. On a more serious note: Harry is seeing the light. He’s defending earmarks, cause he knows they are about to disappear. More and more Americans are forcing these corrupt legislators out of office and it is now Harry’s turn. And yes, do let the door hit you on the way out.
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