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Shelby wants pork in exhange for appointments
Fri, 02/05/2010 - 5:09pm | posted by Jason Pye
Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) has placed holds on some Obama Administration appointments because he wants his pork:
Alabama Republican Sen. Richard Shelby has placed a unilateral hold on all of President Barack Obama’s executive branch nominees in an apparent protest over home state concerns.
Shelby is frustrated over the Pentagon’s bidding process for air-to-air refueling tankers, which could lead to the creation of jobs in Mobile, Ala. And spokesman Jonathan Graffeo said in a statement the senator is also “deeply concerned” that the administration “will not release” funds already appropriated for a Terrorist Explosive Device Analytical Center to be built in Alabama.
“If this administration were as worried about hunting down terrorists as it is about the confirmation of low-level political nominations, America would be a safer place,” Graffeo said.
Isn’t that called extortion here in the real world? No matter, I guess, they don’t play by our rules anyway.
It goes both ways. The feds routinely threaten to withhold transportation funds unless the states do their bidding. (For example, mandate a speed limit no greater than 70mph on interstates. There’s also talk of withholding money if states don’t pass their own texting/distracted driving laws.)
Government. It sucks.
True.
Did you see the links on reconciliation?
Sure did, and bookmarked for later reading. Thank you!
Well so much for Republicans and their new found fiscal conservatism…..
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