Democrats regained power in Congress this year, promising to create the most honest, open Congress in history. Democrats said Republicans had corrupted the earmark process while they controlled Congress.
"We will bring transparency and openness to the budget process and to the use of earmarks," Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi said in December 2006, "and we will give the American people the leadership they deserve."The Clinton campaign has refused to respond to requests that Ms Clinton identify her earmarks.
Why so evasive?
Because from 2002-2006, Clinton, according to Taxpayers for Common Sense , diverted $2.2 billion of taxpayers' money to projects of questionable public value ($200,000 to the Buffalo Urban Arts Center, $250,000 to the Seneca Knitting Mill, for example).
In the fiscal 2008 defense-spending bill alone, Clinton successfully attached 26 earmarks worth $148 million, which was the most of any Democrat except Senator Carl Levin of Michigan, who is now chairman of the Armed Services Committee.
OINK!
Some Congressmen have been trying to curb this flagrantly wasteful spending, but Hillary Clinton has voted against earmark reform, and seems dead set against anyone finding out how she has (ab)used this practice.
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