Keith Ashdown
Keith Ashdown
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This bill will be known as the most earmarked transportation bill in the history of our nation.
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The fact is, there are not the checks and balances to make sure the money is spent well.
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We used to think that Mr. Lewis would be a champion for smart spending. But he brought us the biggest increase in defense earmarking in history.
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Instead of the Air Force acting as an independent reviewer of this nearly $30 billion deal, they've acted as a silent business partner of Boeing.
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If Katherine Harris put out the list, then 534 other members can do it too.
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I guarantee we're going to come back to this after everything has been reviewed and find we paid Nordstrom prices when we should have been paying Wal-Mart costs.
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If you're a lobbyist, you've got the Washington version of the scarlet letter tattooed on your back right now.
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but it is only a small snapshot of what is going on.
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Dave Weldon is the one who loses the most here because he isn't going out of his way to show his complete record. He's going to let this case cloud his reputation.
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It's a real question of who's minding the store. It creates doubt in the investments we're making.
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It's trickle-down contracting: You're paying a cut at every level, and it makes the final cost exponentially more expensive than it needs to be. And in almost every case, the local people who really need to be making the money are at the bottom of these upside-down pyramid schemes.
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It's ironic. This program was set up to save money. But because of poor oversight, it has spent money like Paris Hilton at a shoe sale.
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It's just become a budget gimmick on steroids. It just gives them a chance to take those costs off budget.
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It looks like they're going to do what they should have done in the first place. There's been a lot of pressure on them to make sure that the economic benefit of these contracts stays in the Gulf Coast and doesn't flow to corporate boardrooms thousands of miles away. So in that respect, this is good news.