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Senate Bailout Bill Loaded with Pork

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We're in a huge financial crisis, right?  We're looking at another Great Depression, right?  So what's the Senate do?  They get together and create a pork-laden bailout bill.  The bailout bill contains the following "new" pork:: Film and Television Productions (Sec. 502) Wooden Arrows designed for use by children (Sec. 503) 6 page package of earmarks for litigants in the 1989 Exxon Valdez incident, Alaska (Sec. 504) The bailout bill extends this existing pork: Virgin Island and Puerto Rican Rum (Section 308) American Samoa (Sec. 309) Mine Rescue Teams (Sec. 310) Mine Safety Equipment (Sec. 311) Domestic Production Activities in Puerto Rico (Sec. 312) Indian Tribes (Sec. 314, 315) Railroads (Sec. 316) Auto Racing Tracks (317) District of Columbia  (Sec...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on October 01, 2008 (boomark / email).

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