Infrastructure Update: An Earmark By Any Other Name
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real live pig to help with the visual. one veteran senator says some love the pet projects to win lawmaker support. incredibly there is a movement to restore earmarks. to restore earmarks in the name of being able to pass legislation more easily. i.e. bribe. if you bribe someone, then therefore they d be more likely to vote for a piece of legislation. and we ve noticed during the earmark moratorium its been harder to pass some bills and so some have talked about the possibility of bringing back the earmarks jon. okay. what about progress in cutting pork any signs there? well there are some. they say, you know, there s still the navy looking into researching biofuels but the bottom line is some lawmakers who are known for watching where the dollar goes say there are signs of improvement. we haven t solved this problem, but we have made enormous progress. the number of earmarks that
the pig i mean, they will eat anything, won t they? they are sort of cute but they re pigs and the watch dog group citizens against government waste, sorry, i mean, what are those little spirit i spots? something is en dearing but it is not about lawmakers. we brought some of these little friends along from the farm. better than a lot of things they usually eat, isn t it? the good news first. pork is down. since the big push by lawmakers to ban earmarks and appropriations bills we have seen an improvement in capitol hill and don t say that often. we want to emphasize good news and earmark spending down 80% from two years ago, the last time the pig report came out. that year there were more than 9,000 earmarks which cost $16.5 billion. this year there is only $3.3 billion but it is still too much and to put it in perspective the buffet tax would have raised only $4.7 billion a year. so 3.3 matters. exhibit 1, the m-1 abrams tank. taxpayers, you, are shoveling out $255 millio
happening today with the former massachusetts governor, he s trying to move beyond all of this, obviously. he s been sort of giving his prebuttal to the president s state of the union address tonight and they have sort of been showing us these postcards from the edge of the housing crisis and financial crisis in this country. earlier today mitt romney gave his speech inside an abandoned warehouse that used to be an old drywall factory and here we are now standing in front of a house that s been foreclosed on in southwest florida. so this is what the romney campaign feels like has been working well for him. they feel like he s more effective on the campaign trail when he s talking about the president and not focusing on his rivals. that s what we re seeing today, brooke. what do we expect to hear from mitt romney once he speaks there in tampa again? reporter: well, i think it s going to be more of the same. you know, it s been interesting because, you know, he has been goi
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