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House Approves Agriculture Spending Bill With Hundreds of Earmarks
The Chronicle of Higher Education
May 25, 2006
Despite passage of legislation this month to require public disclosure of earmarks, the U.S. House of Representatives has approved a spending bill for the Agriculture Department peppered with pork, including at least $141-million that will go largely to academic research.
The $18.47-billion appropriations bill, HR 5384, passed, 378 to 46, late Tuesday. The total is $96-million less than what is being spent in the current fiscal year, which ends September 30, but $564-million more than President Bush requested. Keep reading.
Senator Tom Coburn
Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, and International Security
340 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-2254 Fax: 202-228-3796
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