[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6334]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   WAR SUPPLEMENTAL CONTAINS GOODIES

  (Mr. CARTER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CARTER. There is talk that the $100 billion war supplemental will 
include an extra $20 billion in goodies. Such projects are seemingly 
irrelevant to the mission our soldiers are expected to carry out. For 
example:
  $60 million for the California and Oregon salmon fishery disaster of 
'06;
  $400 million for timber revenue program in Oregon;
  $400 million in low-income home energy assistance for State grants;
  $448 million unrequested funds for State children's health insurance 
programs, and;
  a half a billion dollars for wildfire management and suppression.
  Now, these are valuable projects, but they don't belong in an 
emergency war supplemental. They appear to be nothing more than an 
attempt to buy votes at the expense of our soldiers in the war on 
terror. The supplemental is meant to be an emergency troop funding 
vehicle and there is no excuse for $20 billion worth of pork in that 
supplemental.
  Let this Congress respect our soldiers and deny this pork.

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