[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 22386]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 REJECT THE OMNIBUS APPROPRIATIONS BILL

  (Mr. FLAKE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. FLAKE. Mr. Speaker, when the Obama administration was faced with 
a massive omnibus in January of 2009, the President stated that he had 
to sign it because this is simply last year's business that he had no 
part of. Well, he's going to face another omnibus this year. This was 
all done under his watch by the Congress. It's not his fault, but he 
has a veto pen and he should use it.
  This omnibus that's going to come to the President is going to 
contain more than 6,000 earmarks for things like a couple of hundred 
thousand that was mentioned for maple syrup research or $500,000 for 
biodiesel research from sewage-based biodiesel and thousands and 
thousands of other earmarks like this.
  The President recently said: I agree with those Republican and 
Democrat Members of Congress who have recently said that, in these 
challenging days, we simply can't afford what are called earmarks.
  Well, Mr. President, please make good on that statement. Veto this 
omnibus bill coming. Better yet, convince your colleagues in the House 
and the Senate to reject it before it comes to the floor.

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