"Porkbusters"
If we had thought it would pass, we wouldn't have voted for it.
FLORENCE - During a live televised forum to discuss issues surrounding the Interstate 73 project, Sen. Jim DeMint assured supporters of the project that South Carolina will not lose out on $81 million in funding.
DeMint and Sen. Lindsey Graham supported a bill in the Senate that would take away all earmarked moneys from a federal transportation bill to pay for Hurricane Katrina relief.
During the forum at Francis Marion University on Thursday night, DeMint said the bill was a way of pointing out wasteful spending.
“We’re not going to lose the money for I-73,” DeMint said in a pre-recorded interview during the forum. “But it was an important gesture.”
Just another piece of evidence that one senator's pork is another senator's sorely needed infrastructure.
Posted by Chip on November 19, 2005 at 06:16 AM
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