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    From ScottW@21:1/5 to All on Wed Dec 21 09:04:43 2022
    https://justthenews.com/government/congress/17t-omnibus-bill-stuffed-pork-and-gop-lawmakers-should-oppose-it-conservatives

    North Carolina GOP Rep. Dan Bishop worked with his staff to comb through the massive bill and identified $575 million for "family planning/reproductive health" in areas where population growth "threatens biodiversity." Bishop and his staff also
    identified nearly $1.5 billion for "membership in global multilateral organizations," such as the United Nations.

    The legislation includes $2.3 million for informing the public that President Biden is taking action to cancel up to $20,000 of student loan debt for qualified borrowers. Biden's student loan forgiveness program, which he implemented without
    congressional authority, is currently on hold pending Supreme Court review.

    According to the Heritage Foundation, a slew of earmarks can be found in the bill, including $1.2 million for "LGBTQIA+ Pride Centers," $1.2 million allocated to "services for DACA recipients" at San Diego Community College, $1 million for Zora's House
    in Ohio, which is defined as a "co-working and community space” for "women and gender-expansive people of color," and $477,000 for "antiracism virtual labs" at the Equity Institute in Rhode Island.

    There is also $3.6 million for the Michelle Obama Trail in Georgia, $3 million for the American LGBTQ+ Museum in New York City, $856,000 for the "LGBT Center" in New York, $750,000 for "LGBT and Gender Non-Conforming housing" in Albany, N.Y., and $2
    million for the "Great Blacks in Wax" museum in Baltimore.

    The bill also includes $750,000 for the TransLatin@ Coalition's "workforce development programs and supportive services" for transgender, gender nonconforming and intersex immigrant women in Los Angeles. The bill boosts funding for the Child Care and
    Development Block Grant program by 30% over fiscal year 2022 levels. The House of Representatives allocates itself about $26 million for its "Office of Diversity and Inclusion" in the final text of the bill.

    Outgoing Vermont Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy, a key negotiator of the bill as the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, is honored in the legislation with the renaming of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act's "Access to Local
    Foods: Farm to School Program" to the "Access to Local Foods: Patrick Leahy Farm to School Program." He is also honored with the renaming of the "Lake Champlain Basin Program" to the "Patrick Leahy Lake Champlain Basin Program." In addition, the bill
    provides $30 million for the Patrick Leahy Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Program.

    Gotta love the commie approach to population control.
    Wanna bet it's only applied to "red" states?

    ScottW

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  • From mINE109@21:1/5 to ScottW on Wed Dec 21 14:35:05 2022
    On 12/21/22 11:04 AM, ScottW wrote:
    https://justthenews.com/government/congress/17t-omnibus-bill-stuffed-pork-and-gop-lawmakers-should-oppose-it-conservatives

    North Carolina GOP Rep. Dan Bishop

    A $1.7 trillion spending bill is likely to have all kinds of things in it.

    Too bad Republican opposition has lead to these omnibus all or nothing
    bills instead of being willing to negotiate smaller specific items.

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  • From ScottW@21:1/5 to All on Wed Dec 21 18:28:33 2022
    On Wednesday, December 21, 2022 at 12:35:08 PM UTC-8, MINe109 wrote:
    On 12/21/22 11:04 AM, ScottW wrote:
    https://justthenews.com/government/congress/17t-omnibus-bill-stuffed-pork-and-gop-lawmakers-should-oppose-it-conservatives

    North Carolina GOP Rep. Dan Bishop
    A $1.7 trillion spending bill is likely to have all kinds of things in it.

    Too bad Republican opposition has lead to these omnibus all or nothing
    bills instead of being willing to negotiate smaller specific items.

    That's such a load of crap. Nancy and Chuckie run all the committees and none of
    them did their job on the budget. Not one.
    They did this last second backroom lame duck crapfest by design.
    They expected to lose big in the midterms and took advantage of many lame duck votes push through a spending shitfest that would never make it through normal order.

    As has been pointed out but ignored by you,
    "“Let’s remember a year ago, when Chuck Schumer released [the Senate] calendar, he put this week on the calendar. Why do you think he scheduled us to be here the week of Christmas? He did it specifically for this reason. "

    ScottW

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  • From mINE109@21:1/5 to ScottW on Thu Dec 22 09:03:53 2022
    On 12/21/22 8:28 PM, ScottW wrote:
    On Wednesday, December 21, 2022 at 12:35:08 PM UTC-8, MINe109 wrote:
    On 12/21/22 11:04 AM, ScottW wrote:
    https://justthenews.com/government/congress/17t-omnibus-bill-stuffed-pork-and-gop-lawmakers-should-oppose-it-conservatives

    A $1.7 trillion spending bill is likely to have all kinds of things
    in it.

    Too bad Republican opposition has lead to these omnibus all or
    nothing bills instead of being willing to negotiate smaller
    specific items.

    That's such a load of crap. Nancy and Chuckie run all the committees
    and none of them did their job on the budget. Not one.

    That's the Republican MO: block budgets, complaining about spending bills.

    They did this last second backroom lame duck crapfest by design.

    Yes, that's what you get in the absence of bipartisan budgeting.

    They expected to lose big in the midterms and took advantage of many
    lame duck votes push through a spending shitfest that would never
    make it through normal order.

    You're a lot more optimistic than I am that Republicans would support
    any Democratic budget in normal order.

    As has been pointed out but ignored by you, "“Let’s remember a year
    ago, when Chuck Schumer released [the Senate] calendar, he put this
    week on the calendar. Why do you think he scheduled us to be here the
    week of Christmas? He did it specifically for this reason."

    He did that to ensure there would be a spot on the calendar. You'd
    rightfully accuse him of incompetence if he didn't have schedule time
    for a spending bill.

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