Saturday, August 04, 2007
John Murtha Is The Pork King
From The Hill:
Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), chairman of the House Appropriations defense panel, has secured the most earmarked dollars in the 2008 military spending bill.
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Murtha’s 48 earmarks amount to a total of $150.5 million, according to a database compiled by the watchdog organization Taxpayers for Common Sense (TCS).
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Murtha, the defense industry’s darling, has been known throughout his tenure on the defense panel to shell out a large number of earmarks. His biggest earmark in the bill is $23 million for the National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC)
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Murtha’s second highest earmark is for $15 million for a military molecular medicine initiative.
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) got her share of pork projects — 11 projects valued at $37.3 million.
Majority Leader Steny Hoyer’s (D-Md.) haul is $26 million.
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