Veto to Come on Water Infrastructure Projects Bill

[nosmokes]

I guess I shouldn't be surprised that a phony president who can write off access to healthcare for millions of childrens w/o battting an eyelash would give a damn about about clean water or flooding shutting down sanition systems and fouling drinking water. I am surprised to hear Jim Dimint utter the word *ethics* w/o choking on it and I'm stone flabbergasted that James Inhofe is opposed to Dimson's veto on this.I guess they're selling sno-cones in Hell because Inhofe and I actually agree on an issue.
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original-earthnews

Bush to veto WRDA over ‘unsound’ funding decisions
Posted on October 4th, 2007
By Lucy Kafanov

E&E News: The president will veto the $23 billion Water Resources Development Act when it arrives in his office, calling the bill an “unsound” piece of legislation that is “far in excess of what the American taxpayer can afford,” according to a leaked copy of his veto message obtained by E&ENews PM.

In his message, which is expected to accompany the actual veto once he gets the bill, President Bush criticizes H.R. 1495 as an example of unchecked federal spending and said it fails to focus on the most important projects critical to U.S. water infrastructure.

“Congress exposed taxpayers to potentially significant additional costs by requiring federal taxpayers to pay for project costs traditionally borne by the project’s local beneficiaries,” Bush writes. “Indeed, Congress somehow sent me a bill with a final tab far more costly than the original $14 billion Senate bill that went into conference with the House’s $15 billion bill.”

The move was welcomed by taxpayer groups and fiscal conservatives.

“Credit the president for trying to restore some sanity to the federal water resources program,” said Steve Ellis of Taxpayers for Common Sense. “Congress’ response to real fiscal challenges facing our nation’s water infrastructure is simply to authorize more projects instead of ensuring that only the most important and critical projects move forward.”

A Senate Republican aide echoed Ellis, as did Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.).

“This WRDA bill had more to do with politicians building levees around their seats than around flood prone areas,” the aide said.

“This is a wasteful bill stuffed with billions in pork and the president is absolutely right to veto it,” DeMint added. “Democrats added $9 billion of earmarks in the dark of night, including 20 that were not in either House or Senate bill, violating the ethics rules they just passed.”

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complete article here

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1. "violating the ethics rules they just passed.”

If that is true they should be called on it. I am sick of "earmarks" Put it on the floor and let everyone vote. If it is worthy it will get enough votes. Democrats are starting to do everything they criticized the Republicans for...