Senators clash over "Bridge to Nowhere"

[laureloak]

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Republicans in Congress say they are serious about cutting spending, but they learned yesterday to keep their hands off the "Bridge to Nowhere."
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One of the Alaska bridges, dubbed the "Bridge to Nowhere" by its critics, would connect Ketchikan to an island where there is an airport and about 50 people. It received $223 million in the highway bill that Congress passed during the summer. The second bridge, called "Don Young's Way" in honor of its patron, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Don Young, R-Alaska, received about $230 million — as a down payment on a cost that could hit $1.5 billion.
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2002574136_spending21.html

[ProdigalJunkMail]

1. while being 'serious' about cutting spending

the measure to remove this from the bill failed by a vote of 82-15...yeah...serious.

LINK
http://www.news-miner.com/Stories/0,1413,113~7244~3100655,00.html


subjectProdigal

[rodeodance]

3. gee folks, if an official has a bridge named after him--he would want

it built!!


.The second bridge, called "Don Young's Way" in honor of its patron, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Don Young, R-Alaska, received about $230 million — as a down payment on a cost that could hit $1.5 billion.

[laureloak]

4. Do these bridges relate to oil drilling in Alaska? n/t

[ProdigalJunkMail]

5. to the best of my knowledge this project

is nowhere near and has nothing to do with drilling...

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[Tim4319]

2. Priorities! The RW has them.

[Toots]

6. Why these two guys keep getting re-elected

Both Don Young and Ted Stevens have been in office since the sixties because they "bring home the bacon (pork)" Alaska has the second smallest population of all the states yet per capita brings home the most federal monies. Most states receive under a hundred dollars per person while Alaska brings in over five thousand dollars per person. No wonder it is a Red State. They pull Uncle Sam's bootstraps up and strut around thinking they are so self dependent. Alaskans have been sucking government tit since statehood and love that "big guvment" dole. Has anyone ever mentioned Republicans sometimes appear hypocritical? :shrug: