07-18-2008, 04:06 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Republik of Kalifornia
Age: 50
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House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer "Hold Members Accountable for Earmarks"
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DEMOCRATIC PROMISE #71: Hold Members Accountable
Promise: “[W]e will help bring back fiscal responsibility by holding members accountable for their earmarks …”
– Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD), Press Release, January 3, 2007
Broken Promise: “[W]e were unable to vet properly and certify properly the 32,000 requests. But we had to move ahead with the appropriations bill.”
– Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD), Interview on CNN’s American Morning, June 13, 2007.
Instead of holding members accountable for their earmarks, House Democratic leaders attempted to move appropriations bills that included slush funds for secret earmarks – earmarks that would be “airdropped” into House-Senate appropriations conference reports at the last minute, eliminating virtually all member accountability for those earmarks.
http://republicanleader.house.gov/br...nsparency.html
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Let's have a look at House Majority leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) pork project record.
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$297,900 - Alternative Uses for Tobacco (Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, Research and Education: Special Research Grants)
$64,545 - Potato Diseases, Beltsville (Agricultural Research Service: Salaries and Expenses)
$434,934 - Poultry Diseases, Beltsville (Agricultural Research Service: Salaries and Expenses)
$90,363 - Obesity Interventions (Nutricore), Beltsville (Agricultural Research Service: Salaries and Expenses)
$680,205 - Foundry Sand By-Products Utilization, Beltsville (Agricultural Research Service: Salaries and Expenses)
$72,489 - Minor-Use Pesticides (IR-4), Beltsville (Agricultural Research Service: Salaries and Expenses)
$473,661 - Turfgrass Research, Washington (Agricultural Research Service: Salaries and Expenses)
$262,152 - Weed Management Research, Beltsville (Agricultural Research Service: Salaries and Expenses)
$923,490 - Dairy Genetics, Beltsville (Agricultural Research Service: Salaries and Expenses)
$847,029 - Coffee and Cocoa, Beltsville (Agricultural Research Service: Salaries and Expenses)
$1,900,602 - Bovine Genetics, Beltsville (Agricultural Research Service: Salaries and Expenses)
$473,661 - Barley Health Food Benefits, Beltsville (Agricultural Research Service: Salaries and Expenses)
$470,000 - Oyster Hatchery Economic Pilot Program at Morgan State University (DOC-NOAA)
$1,968,000 - Chesapeake Bay oyster recovery, MD & VA (Corps of Engineers: Construction)
http://www.cagw.org/site/PageServer?...k2008_database
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He has 98 earmark projects going, many are for worthy stuff....but these are pure pork and corporate welfare with our tax dollars.
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