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...earmark requests - are howling at what they view as Obama's blatant hypocrisy. House minority leader John Boehner and nine other House Republicans sent Pelosi and Obama a letter asking for a freeze in spending levels and for a re-examination of the earmarks in the bill. "There are 9,000 reasons to vote against this spending bill - 9,000 earmarks slipped and crammed into this pork-stuffed nightmare," Representative John Shadegg, an Arizona Republican, said on Wednesday in a statement. "Last night, President Obama bragged about this claim that there were no earmarks in his stimulus bill...
...Still, Ellis and other observers argue that the fiscal-2009 budget's level of earmarking is too high and that projects such as $1.8 million for swine odor and manure management in Iowa, $190,000 for the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Wyoming, $400,000 to combat bullying in Montana and $2.2 million to study grape genetics in New York are easily ridiculed and embarrassing. And they show the risk of one-party control of both the executive and legislative branches of government - which was amply demonstrated by George W. Bush and congressional Republicans...
...more details of the President's plan during a White House health-care summit expected at the end of next week - but they may be looking toward the wrong end of Pennsylvania Avenue. Unlike the failed 1994 Clinton health-care-reform effort, this isn't going to be a bill that the Executive Branch drafts in isolation and then tries to ram down the throats of Congress. Instead, Congress - particularly a working group convened by longtime health-care-reform advocate Senator Edward M. Kennedy - is working on a consensus solution following the road map laid out by Obama...
...called health-care reform his top priority this year and is working hand-in-hand with Kennedy - Baucus' staff has often been in the room when stimulus negotiations allowed them the time - has said that he expects to hold hearings in the spring. By all accounts, the bill will go through the usual committee process in an effort to draw as much bipartisan support as possible. Democrats control the Senate with 58 votes - two votes short of preventing a Republican filibuster, so at least some GOP support must be drawn. There has been concern among the stakeholders that the Republicans...
...press that the real blood-sucking culprit was a giant vampire bat with a 5-ft wingspan, which he claims to have once caught in the northern mountains of Nicaragua. Bat experts and other vampire hunters insist there's no way a vampire could grow that big, but zoologist Bill Schutt says the hunter could have caught the Vampyrum spectrum, a monstrous carnivorous bat found in Nicaragua. The Vampyrum spectrum is an extremely rare predator with fierce teeth and a three-foot wing span. But, Schutt notes, it's not a real blood feeder, despite its name...