[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 7275]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                   EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL FUNDS PORK

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, this week politicians in Congress are trying 
to use our military troops as a bargaining chip for their own pork 
barrel and domestic projects. Some of these projects are designed to 
buy votes of wavering Members. The bill includes such things as $25 
million for spinach subsidies, $74 million for peanut storage, $120 
million for the shrimp industry, money for extra office space for the 
House of Representatives.
  This bill ought to focus on our troops. Congress is telling the 
President you cannot fund body armor for our troops in combat until you 
give us more money for our pet projects and pork barrel. Those tactics 
are fiscally irresponsible and wrong. Let's pass a clean emergency 
spending bill.

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