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Will Obama sign another spending bill?
With over 6000 earmarks? Didn't he campaign AGAINST this kind of pork barrel spending.
9 Answers
- ?Lv 61 decade agoFavorite Answer
Hannity and others are having fun playing the tape of obama on the campaign trail claiming that he would veto bills with earmarks. Surprise! Surprise! Obama is a liar.
- BugLv 71 decade ago
An "earmark" is not *additional* spending. It sets aside a certain amount of money that is already appropriated, for a certain project (so it can't be spent on something else).
I do think the entire process needs fixed, but that can only be done by the Congress, and now is not the time. The government has not been funded for the fiscal year starting in October, so I believe Obama will sign this bill.
Once Republicans take over the House in January, let's see how willing they are to change the rules for how money is appropriated. My guess is, they won't be interested at all.
- ?Lv 45 years ago
He specific is. he's a liar. do no longer provide me that rubbish approximately no earmarks with the aid of fact it fairly is a prior 3 hundred and sixty 5 days's business enterprise. Nonsense. This bill became into written via nancy pelosi and purposefully placed off till after the election. known, the president, vice president, the White homestead chief of team and the 4 cabinet secretaries who have been in Congress final 3 hundred and sixty 5 days confirmed up interior the information of the homestead and Senate Appropriations committees with the aid of fact the sponsors or cosponsors of hundreds of tens of millions of greenbacks in puppy initiatives interior the $410 billion spending bill. they have considering the fact that scrubbed his call from the bill yet if certainty learn nevertheless that his call became into interior the bill as a co-sponsor of an earmark whilst it became into presented.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Yes
What he says and what he does are two completely different things.
He's the biggest back stabber in Government. Nancy and Raid are next
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- 林Lv 71 decade ago
Hey, that's politics for you- Pork barrels are fun for everyone in this leeching government of ours!
- Anonymous1 decade ago
He always looks in the other direction.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Unfortunately as long as there are republicans there will be pork.