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Posts Tagged ‘omnibus’

• Throwing Values Under the Omnibus

  Posted December 10th, 2009 at 11:55am in Family and Religion with 3 comments

  While most eyes in Washington are on the massive health care reform bills, Congress is ever so slowly making policy changes via other legislative vehicles, including the Omnibus Appropriations bill being readied for enactment before December 18. This Omnibus Appropriations bill includes six of the 13 annual spending bills the Congress must approve to [...] More

• House ‘Minibus’ Not So Mini

  Posted December 10th, 2009 at 10:56am in Ongoing Priorities with 1 comments

  Congressional leadership has unveiled an a $446.8 billion “minibus” that will cover six annual appropriations bills, leaving only the defense bill to pass separately. Assuming these bills pass, discretionary spending will have jumped by 8 percent for the third consecutive year since the Democrats took control of Congress in 2007. In those three years, regular [...] More

• E-Verify Lives Another Day

  Posted March 12th, 2009 at 12:57pm in Protect America with 6 comments

  This is what happens when Congress passes bills that nobody has time to read. As it turns out, on the last page of the recently passed “Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009” was language that clarified the end date for E-Verify. There has been much confusion regarding whether the Department of Homeland Security could continue operating E-Verify [...] More

• Morning Bell: It’s About the Spending

  Posted March 5th, 2009 at 9:07am in Ongoing Priorities with 32 comments

  Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) ought to be commended for exposing the left’s commitment to reforming the way Washington does business as nothing more than empty rhetoric. Last night Coburn forced votes on two amendments to the $410 billion omnibus appropriations bill that forced liberal Senators to approve of $10 million in earmarks for the clients [...] More

• Backdoor Global Warming Policy Will Prolong the Recession

  Posted February 25th, 2009 at 12:43pm in Energy and Environment with 5 comments

  Omnibus spending bills are typically end-of-the-year bills laden with wasteful earmarks and specific pet projects that cost the taxpayer billions of dollars. Because of the stimulus bill Congress pushed Omnibus legislation for the fiscal year 2009 into February with a vote in the House expected to come this week and a vote in the Senate [...] More

• Omnibus Land Package: More Energy Off Limits

  Posted October 24th, 2008 at 5:01pm in Energy and Environment with 6 comments

  1082 pages. $3 billion in earmarks. At least 8.8 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and 300 million barrels of oil off limits. Congress is at it again. In an attempt to squeeze an omnibus package during the lame-duck session, Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid said that beginning November 17th a debate over a public lands bill that [...] More

• Killing Two ‘Grilled Wolfe Ranch Quails’ With One Stone

  Posted February 6th, 2008 at 2:12pm in Protect America with 0 comments

  How can Congress both fight wasteful pork barrel spending and support our troops all at the same time? By backing Sen. Jim DeMint’s (R-SC) new bill the Semper Fi Act of 2008 which rescinds over $2 million in hidden earmarks for Berkeley, California in the 2008 Omnibus Appropriations bill, and transfer the funds to the [...] More

• Morning Bell: White House Fecklessness on Spending Exposed

  Posted January 29th, 2008 at 8:54am in Ongoing Priorities with 0 comments

  President Bush may have promised to veto any spending bill that does not cut the number and cost of earmarks in half, but as commentators were quick to point out, since Democrats are planning on holding back spending bills till the next President takes office, the threat is virtually worthless. Equally unhelpful is the White [...] More

• Fred Thompson Says Bush Should Ignore Earmarks

  Posted January 10th, 2008 at 3:28pm in Ongoing Priorities with 0 comments

  Just days after releasing a plan to reduce government spending, Fred Thompson continued his assault on earmarks, promising today that if elected president he would sign an executive order canceling lawmakers’ pork-barrel projects. President Bush is considering the idea, which is strongly opposed by congressional appropriators but supported by fiscal conservatives. Thompson fielded questions from bloggers [...] More

• McCain Supports Anti-Earmark Executive Order

  Posted January 9th, 2008 at 11:31pm in Ongoing Priorities with 0 comments

  A day after his victory in the New Hampshire primary, Sen. John McCain spoke with bloggers about a variety of issues, including the option of a presidential executive order canceling earmarks in the omnibus spending bill. Erick Erickson of RedState posed the question to the Arizona senator, who has long been a critic of pork-barrel [...] More