… on the fiscal front, along with Senators Brownback (R-KS), DeMint (R-SC), Ensign (R-NV), Graham (R-SC), McCain (R-AZ), and Sununu (R-NH). To help offset Hurricane Katrina relief effort costs, they unveiled today a proposal to that would cut up to $115 billion of pork in the federal budget over the next two years. Click here to read more about their ideas (Adobe req.).
The short version: Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) had proposed an amendment in the Senate that would require previously approved pet projects supported by his fellow Senators be cancelled and the money from those pet projects (better known as pork) to be used instead on the Hurricane Katrina restore/rebuild effort. In a stunning display of business-as-usual arrogance – especially when it comes to spending, the amendment proposal was defeated, with only 15 Senators voting in support and a whopping 82 against. Here are those who voted in favor:
Via the Times-Picayune:
This state is great in so many ways (in spite of the fact that some areas have lousy political representation in DC) but one of its best qualities is its generous spirit. Chris at Conservative Thinking has a story about a furniture store in Claremont, NC, that is doing its part to aid the victims of Hurricane Katrina:
Lisa Myers at MSNBC does a great job of laying out the facts on what La. Gov. Blanco did wrong in the days leading up to Katrina, and the days after the levees were breached.
Via Noel Sheppard at the American Thinker:
