[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 5]
[House]
[Pages 7275-7276]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL FUNDS PORK, LITERALLY

  (Mr. KIRK asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KIRK. Mr. Speaker, ``such sums as may be necessary are hereby 
appropriated for livestock producers.''
  Mr. Speaker, the so-called U.S. Troops Readiness, Veterans' Health 
and Iraq Accountability Act contains this open-ended appropriation for 
pork, literally. The Troops Readiness bill contains another open-ended 
payment of taxpayer dollars for crop payments.
  While the bill restricts funding for our troops, it would provide $25 
million in a bailout for spinach farmers, another $74 in taxpayer 
dollars for peanut storage, and $283 million for milk producers. All of 
this spending is designated under the bill as emergency

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wartime supplemental appropriations, language that means that the bill 
waives the budget so we can pay pork producers. It is ironic that this 
bill treats pork producers better than our troops.
  It is no wonder that the majority will not be allowed amendments to 
this bill, because the American people would not approve the payment of 
pork spending under the name of our troops overseas.

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