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Wednesday, November 16, 2005

And the award for "Fakest Compromise of 2005" goes to ...

House and Senate negotiators!!! For theis fine work convincing the New York Times Online to run this headline: "G.O.P. Strips Mandatory Funding for Two Alaskan Bridges."

The real story?

In an unusual move to change ``pork'' spending, House-Senate negotiators removed the $432 million in required spending during final talks on a yearly bill to fund programs for the Transportation and Treasury departments, the House Appropriations Committee said.

As a compromise, Alaska will still receive the money that had been set aside for the bridges to spend as it likes on transportation needs.


1 Comments:

  • I assume "spend as it likes" means that it would be up to Alaska's state lawmakers to appropriate that money? That is, not up to Don Young?

    By Blogger dl004d, at 9:13 AM  

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