Democrats longing to commemorate the famous Woodstock concert in the summer of ’69 will have to do it without $1 million of the taxpayer’s money.
Last week, the Senate successfully struck a wasteful earmark inserted by New York’s Democrat senators Hillary Clinton and Charles Schumer to build a museum on the site of the three-day music festival. Critics called the earmark a “hippie museum and a taxpayer-funded LSD flashback.”
Adding insult to injury, just days after New York’s senators originally inserted this wasteful earmark into a congressional spending bill, the billionaire backing the museum gave $9,200 to Sen. Clinton’s presidential campaign and $20,000 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (which is coincidentally chaired by Sen. Schumer).
House Republicans believe EVERY earmark should be debatable on the House floor, no matter whether it appears in a policy bill like Rep. John Murtha’s $39 million “boondoggle” earmark or in a spending bill like the Clinton-Schumer monument to the hazy days of Woodstock. Democrats want to keep them secret.
House Republicans are circulating a petition on the House Floor that would force Speaker Nancy Pelosi to allow all earmarks to be debated and publicly scrutinized. So far, 197 Republicans have signed it. The petition requires 218 signatures; it will not succeed without the support of fiscally responsible Democrats. To date, no Democrat has signed it.
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