Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
Monday, March 26, 2018
Congressman receives our Toad Sucker Award - Big winners in the $1.3 trillion spending bill? Fishing enthusiasts and cranberry researchers
The 2,232-page bill was packed with items whose true extent may not be known for weeks — until Congress and watchdogs have a chance to actually go through the legislation they passed, but which nobody had a chance to fully read. President Trump, though touting some wins on defense spending, said he was furious with the rest of the bill-writing process.
“I will never sign another bill like this again,” he vowed at the White House on Friday. “If we take something for the military, they want something for, in many cases, things that are really a wasted sum of money.”
Despite Mr. Trump’s complaints, House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rodney Frelinghuysen told members of the Rules Committee that lawmakers managed to squeeze every penny out of the deal.
“We’ve worked to make sure not a dollar is wasted,” he said.
Congressional waste-watchers disagreed.
“That may be the most ridiculous comment ever made about any legislation in Congress,” said Tom Schatz, president of Citizens Against Government Waste. But much of the heavy lifting in the bill isn’t about dollars and cents. It’s the policy provisions that are tucked in, either ordering or banning certain actions from the administration.
The horse provision was an example of that.
The bill prevents the government from spending any money to inspect horse-meat slaughter facilities. Without inspections, the meat can’t be sold for human consumption — effectively squelching the industry...MORE
House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rodney Frelinghuysen told
members of the Rules Committee that lawmakers managed to squeeze every
penny out of the deal.
“We’ve worked to make sure not a dollar is wasted,” he said.
Congressional waste-watchers disagreed.
And the very appropriate response:
“That may be the most ridiculous comment ever made about any legislation
in Congress,” said Tom Schatz, president of Citizens Against Government
Waste.
That's right folks, not a dollar was wasted. And oh yes, there are buffalo chips the size of houses floatin' down the Rio Grande tonight.
This does, though, give me the opportunity to present the Toad Sucker Award, which is reserved for those ideas, programs, people or proposals for which we harbor exceptional disdain. The award is below.
3 comments:
Hmmm ...maybe the sludge from the bottomless swamp will make a good dip to go with those buffalo chips ???
Swamp sludge and buffalo chips...two different forms of shit for the Congressman to eat...a shit sandwich for DC toad suckers...1 like it!
It could be the 'blue plate special' ...or, more like 'blue state special' ...on the menu at vegan restaurants everywhere.
...but have to put an allergen warning that the chips and dip came from a facility that manufactures nuts...
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