Nelson requests 43 earmarks in Senate omnibus bill

A vow to vote down their own earmarks
The port city of Pascagoula on Mississippi's Gulf Coast wants to build a beach promenade, with new benches, lush landscaping and a lighted pathway for joggers, cyclists and dog walkers. So the municipality of 24,000 hired a pair of Washington Lobbyists. The city shelled out $40,000 a year, according to Public Records, to retain Jeffrey Brooks and Wayne Weidie. They are former top aides to Gulf Coast congressmen and frequent Donors to Mississippi's elected officials. The lobbyists parlayed th...

NYT editorial: Round Up the Usual Prospects
To no one’s shock, the lame-duck session is offering daily profiles in hypocrisy by lawmakers who made loud campaign vows to “change the culture” of Washington. In the Senate, prominent Republicans who took the anti-earmark pledge as part of the Tea Party crusade against Deficits now must deal with a mammoth $1.2 Trillion Government Spending bill that happens to be routinely packed with their own customized pork. What to do? “The simple answer is: I’m going to vote against th

Tea Party Era Begins With Refusal To Debate 'Omnibus' Spending Bill
WASHINGTON -- The new, more Republican Congress won't arrive in town until next month, but the Tea Party Era unofficially began on the Hill Thursday night. Republican leaders in Congress, blindsided by Grassroots fury over the Tax Cut deal they made with President Obama, are now scrambling to show their allegiance to the anti-federal, anti-debt movement. The GOP brass, led by Senate Party Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), did so tonight by eagerly backing the successful efforts of Tea Party favo...

Republican senators say they'll vote against their own earmarks
The port city of Pascagoula on Mississippi's Gulf Coast wants to build a beach promenade, with new benches, lush landscaping and a lighted pathway for joggers, cyclists and dog walkers. This Story Republican senators say they'll vote against their own Earmarks West Wing Briefing: Poll on tax deal hints Obama still hasn't sold public Pimco's Kashkari Says No `Hard Choices' Made in Tax Plan Recession pushed down tax 'burden' Declining revenue Senate spending bill contains thousands of Earmarks ...

Republican Senator porkers (earmarks) in the omnibus bill
Republican Senator porkers (Earmarks) in the omnibus bill You expect the Democrats the load bills up with pork aka earmarks, but one would think that the Republicans got the hint after the November 2nd Elections. Looks like the Republicans are as braindead as the Democrats when it comes to the voter’s ire. In fact, while there are over 6,000 earmarks in the latest $1.1 Trillion dollar omnibus bill, the two leaders in earmark request according to Cubachi are the two Mississippi Republican...

Bill Nelson Tone Deaf on Earmarks
Apparently, Bill Nelson didn't get the memo. Or maybe he just forgot. From President Barack Obama to the lowest ranking Republican on Capitol Hill, Budget Earmarks have become a Washington whipping boy. But Florida's senior senator is sparing the rod and liberally piling on the pork as he and fellow Democrats in the state's House delegation shoved millions of dollars in special projects into the lame-duck Congress' omnibus Budget bill this week. "It seems Democrats learned nothing from the 2010...

Florida Congressional Repubs Piled Pressure on Dems Over Now-Deceased Spending Bill
The deeply unpopular, $1.1 Trillion spending bill -- including its more than 6,700 Earmarks -- went down in flames Thursday night. And Florida Republicans in Congress can claim their opposition as some of the ammunition that shot it out of the sky. In truth, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid yanked the bill after he discovered Democrats didn't have the support to get it passed. Reid said he will begin immediately to work with Republicans on a Compromise popular enough for at least a short-term f...

Stop Omnibus Bill by Shutting Down Government or Continuing Resolution
The recently released Omnibus bill in the Senate costs over $1.1 Trillion. It contains over 6,600 Earmarks. After the November 2nd Elections the people of America spoke through the Ballot Box that earmarks will not be tolerated. Sadly elected officials in the U.S. Senate have ignored the electorate thus the reason for the petition below. 2.A continuing resolution, excluding any earmarks or other business, is signed through the month of February. The will of The People is not reflected in the Om...

Ding Dong the 1,924 Page Omnibus Spending Bill Is Dead Harry Reid Pulls Bill
V IS FOR VICTORY … VICTORY FOR WE THE PEOPLE!!! America, tonight you just witnessed the power of the people and the aftermath of the political Tsunami and avalanche of the 2010 Midterm Election. Elections have consequences. Democrats and those Republicans who did not quite get the message, finally did over the last couple days as WE THE PEOPLE made their outraged voices heard and along with Senators Jim DeMint, Mitch McConnell and John McCain … Reid’s bill is toast. As state...

GOP Kills Dems Omnibus Spending Bill
The Hill: Senate Democrats have given up on their plan to pass a $1.1 Trillion omnibus spending bill in the face of unified Republican opposition. The bill’s collapse will take with it more than 6,000 Earmarks as well as more than $1 billion in funding for implementation of Healthcare Reform. Democrats will move instead to two high priorities on their legislative agenda: the DREAM Act, which would grant permanent legal residency to Illegal Immigrants under a certain age, and a Repeal of the ...

Reid Drops Omnibus Spending Bill
(NewsCore) - In a surprise move, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced on the Senate floor Thursday that he does not have the necessary votes to file for Cloture on a $1.1 Trillion omnibus spending bill and will therefore not bring it to the Senate floor for a vote. Reid said nine Republicans, who he refused to name, had previously assured him of their support for the bill but had walked away from it in the last few days. Instead, Reid said he will now work with Senate Minority Le...

Reid Drops Omnibus Spending Bill
(NewsCore) - In a surprise move, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced on the Senate floor Thursday that he does not have the necessary votes to file for Cloture on a $1.1 Trillion omnibus spending bill and will therefore not bring it to the Senate floor for a vote. Reid said nine Republicans, who he refused to name, had previously assured him of their support for the bill but had walked away from it in the last few days. Instead, Reid said he will now work with Senate Minority Le...

GOP opposition forces Democrats to pull $1.1 trillion spending bill from floor
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was forced to pull the $1.1 Trillion omnibus bill that would fund the government for next year on Thursday after it became clear he would not have the votes to pass it. The Senate was set to begin considering the bill Thursday with expected passage over the weekend, but nine Senate Republicans who said they would support the bill withdrew their support at the last moment because of pressure from their GOP colleagues. Before they changed their position on the bil...

Reid Drops Omnibus Spending Bill
(NewsCore) - In a surprise move, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced on the Senate floor Thursday that he does not have the necessary votes to file for Cloture on a $1.1 Trillion omnibus spending bill and will therefore not bring it to the Senate floor for a vote. Reid said nine Republicans, who he refused to name, had previously assured him of their support for the bill but had walked away from it in the last few days. Instead, Reid said he will now work with Senate Minority Le...

BREAKING: Ding Dong The Swine Bill's Dead/Reid Pulls Omnibus
Just a half-hour ago, Harry Reid took the Senate floor and started a rambling Speech about how he supports the Constitution and how women and little babies would have a lousy life should the Senate Swine Omnibus bill not pass, that's when he sprung the Christmas surprise. He is pulling the bill and will work on a short term continuing resolution that will fund the government till the new Congress convenes. Reid no longer has the votes. I have to tell you if I was John Boehner I would have star...

At least someone will have read it: GOP to 'paralyze' Senate by reading the disastrous 2,000-page, trillion-plus spending bill
The left-leaning political journal The Hill makes the tactic sound, oh, I don't know... dire? Their headline reads, "GOP will paralyze Senate floor with reading of 1,924-page spending bill". Hey, schmucks: is it really too much to ask that our representatives read the damn bills before they vote on them? I will assert the following: the 111th Congress will go down in history as the most rabid, radical and destructive enemies of the state ever to assume power in America. Republicans will paraly...

Reid Drops Omnibus Spending Bill
Politico reports: Senate Democrats abruptly abandoned an omnibus Budget bill for the coming year, pushing major spending decisions into the next Congress and giving Republicans immense new leverage to confront President Barack Obama priorities. The decision Thursday night sweeps away months of Bipartisan work by the Senate Appropriations Committee which had crafted the $1.1 Trillion bill to meet spending targets embraced by Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R—Ky.) himself prior to the electio...

Senate Abandons Spending Bill
Senate Democrats have "given up on their plan to pass a $1.1 Trillion omnibus spending bill in the face of unified Republican opposition," The Hill reports. "The bill's collapse will take with it more than 6,000 Earmarks as well as more than $1 billion in funding for implementation of Health Care reform." Democrats will now move to other priorities: the DREAM Act, which would grant permanent legal residency to Illegal Immigrants under a certain age, and a Repeal of the Military's "Don't ask, do...

Harkin includes 152 earmarks in omnibus bill, 4th most in Senate
The Senate Appropriations Committee released an omnibus federal spending bill on Tuesday. The bill essentially sets the Budget for the Federal Government to continue operating into the next year, and Congress must take action on it or a similar bill before the end of the year in order for the Federal Government to keep its doors open after Jan. 1. More than 6,000 Earmarks were included in the omnibus worth more than $8 billion in spending for 2011, though they represent only a small fraction of ...

Obama tax break deal clears Senate with George LeMieux and Bill Nelson voting in favor
AP: "The Senate has passed a sweeping tax package that would save millions of Americans thousands of dollars in higher taxes for the next two years while also reducing their Social Security taxes and extending jobless benefits. "The $858 billion package now goes to the House, where many Democrats are unhappy with a provision that allows estates as large as $10 million to pass to heirs tax-free. Democratic leaders, however, say they expect the bill to ultimately pass and become law. A...

Will Bill Nelson vote for his Florida earmarks?
The Florida Democrat two weeks ago voted for a ban on Earmarks -- two weeks after touting their benefits. Now he'll face another test -- Senate Democrats have unveiled a massive spending bill that includes more than 6,000 Earmarks worth $8 billion. It's touching off rebellion among Tea Party groups who are asking members to call Congress in Protest. And earmark foe  John McCain asked his fellow senators whether they were "tone deaf" o...

GOP Filibusters Reid's $1.1 Trillion Omnibus Bill
The Senate GOP put a stop to Harry Reid's last minute 1,924 page, $1.1 (or $1.2) Trillion omnibus bill with a Filibuster that Reid could not get 60 votes to overcome. There were $8 billion in Earmarks, some from the very Republicans that later agreed to a ban of Earmarks, which liberals and Reid continue to neglect to mention when they claim "Republicans have them in the bill too." Fox Reports: Sen. GOP Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has long been known as an effective whip, and Thursday night...

Lame duck Senate spending bill includes a $48 billion earmark
   I have previously written about the latest $1 Trillion, 2,000 page, earmark laden omnibus spending bill that was proposed in the Senate here. There are over 6,000 Earmarks in this spending bill, but there is one earmark in particular that takes the cake.  Lamar Mickens of the United States House of Representatives from Missouri has introduced an earmark in this spending bill of $48 billion that is designed to divert money to the inner cities. ...

Current Senate Has Few Real Fiscal Champions
I have been reviewing two legislative movements in the Senate to get an idea of where the Tea Party stands when it comes to representation. Unfortunately, the news is not very good. On the issue of Earmarks, a select member of Senators resisted the temptation to add their own pet projects to the pork-laden omnibus bill. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the following Senators requested zero earmarks: Of those on this list, it’s worth noting that Manchin, Coons and Kirk were no...

The Democrats aren't listening (and neither are the Republicans)
Posted by Guest Blogger Locutisprime. The Democrats aren't listening. The omnibus spending bill, which comprises 1924 pages, has billions and billions of dollars in Earmarks. Something that I for one thought the American People had discussed with Congress on November 2nd of this year. That's right. Fifty four Democrat senators are listed as having earmarks in this bill. But they are not the only culprits with a hearing Deficit. There are thirty three Republicans who apparently didn'...