Negotiating session. Ill take the heat. I dont care. Ill take all the heat you want to give me. The president taking range of contradictory positions. You need to be clear. When we talk about just daca. We dont want to be back here two years later. You have to have security. I think my positions are going to be what the people in the room come up with. We dont need a 2,000 mile wall. You dont need rivers and mountains. You want 18 billion for a wall or else it will be no daca. Is that still your position . I can build it for less. Part of that was a push back against all the chatter from the book about his mental capacity to lead but even the story from the day before about the executive time. The very thing he was trying to prover, he disproves. Is trump actually messes up on this, hes done more damage to himself than anyone else can do to him. First impressions of that meeting yesterday is flat out betrayal for the voters that put him in office. I voted for him for immigration and on
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When the 117th U.S. Congress takes office Jan. 3, Connecticut Rep. Rosa DeLauro of the 3rd District will be the new chair of the powerful Appropriations Committee. That her arrival in this leadership position could coincide with a revival of so-called “earmarks” could prove advantageous for the state and deal making in Washington.
The Democrat from New Haven had to win 15 elections to put her in a position to compete for one of the top leadership positions in the House. It is arguably the highest position a Connecticut representative has held since Jonathan Trumbull Jr. served as speaker from 1791-1793.
president trump says it was way to grease the wheels for compromise. critics say it was ripe with construction and waste. for close votes on bill, opposing politicians could be given special earmarks that sent federal tlar tladollars to thei state or district. it could fund anything from defense contracts to bloated construction projects. let s take a look at a few of them. earmarks plopped into a defense apropuati appropriations bill. another one started as a transportation treasury and hud appropriations bill that ended up including half a million dollars for the sparta teapot museum in north carolina which is just what it sounds like. it s a museum of teapots. then talked into the american reinvestment and recovery act, some will know that as the stimulus act. more than $3 million to build a