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OT Howard Dean in 2004
"Gould 0738" wrote in message ... The major problem with that is the major pork is added as amendments to very important spending bills e.g. transportation bill. The Iraq spending bill, had something like 80(0?) million in non related pork added. If the spending bill is passed, the money has to be spent. In the old days, pre-Nixon the Executive branch just did not spend the money. Was allocated, but not spent. Congress (Democrat controlled at the time) went to court and got a ruling that required the President (Exec Branch) to spend all allocated money. So the deficits are Congress's. But the CEO gets the blame or credit. Bill So, in that case the President checks his stones to see that they're still there (or has an intern do it for him) and then vetoes the Iraq war bill. Pork and all. Message to congress: "Send it back up again without all the funny crapola and I'll sign it. Or, you guys muster the super majority to override it and then I don't want to hear jack squat about the deficit." And don't forget, its a RW congress at this time. All that pork wouldn't be in the bills unless at least some members of the President's own party are in favor of it. If the RW would simply stick together, it could control runaway spending. Never said that one party had a lock on pork. Is the way of politicos! The Executive branch needs to go to court to overturn the agreement that allowed non-germane amendments to be added to a bill. Used to be this way, but part of the Nixon agreement allowed this rule to be killed. Bill |
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