On the Campaign Trail with Ed Tibbetts

There’s something patriotic about the new defense spending bill in the U.S. House of Representatives. It has 1,776 earmark requests.

Get it?

The Porkbusters web site lists all the requests today, including seven from the Q-C congressmen, Phil Hare and Bruce Braley. You can find the whole list here.

Hare’s four submissions and Braley’s three are quite modest, actually. Two dozen lawmakers had double-digit requests.

Rep. C.W. Bill Young, a Republican from Florida, led the pack with 60. In second was Rep. John Murtha, a Pennsylvania Democrat, with 59.

Hare asked for $15 million. Braley asked for $9 million.

Some of the local requests were for the Rock Island Arsenal; also they’re pitching for the on-board oxygen generating systems made by Davenport’s Carleton Life Support Systems.

Critics, and a lot of citizens, too, label all these earmarks pork. But I’m guessing to the folks at Carelton and the Arsenal, this stuff doesn’t oink.

The other stuff – well, that’s another story, right?

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