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...Arizona Senator John McCain and his aide Mark Buse, the antipork specialist who ferrets out "ridiculous spending projects," a 21-gun salute for blocking pork-barrel appropriations. ROBERT G. ROWE Denver...
Fortunately, Republicans have a few aggressive pork busters in their ranks, most notably Arizona Senator John McCain. While most lawmakers pay little attention to the thousands of line items in appropriations bills, he has assigned a sharp-eyed 29-year-old staff member, Mark Buse, to pore over them and monitor the Senate floor for as long as 13 hours at a stretch. Buse has earned the nickname "the ferret" -- as well as the enmity of Senators annoyed by his zealous impertinence. But Peter Sepp, a spokesman for the National Taxpayers Union, says, "Mark's efforts have been absolutely critical...
...weeks ago, for example, Buse was on floor duty when the Senate considered the second version of a recisions bill intended to cut $16 billion from the current year's budget. Buse noted two suspicious changes. One required that nasa purchase, "for no more than $35 million,'' a Texas property known as the Clear Lake Development Facility, currently owned by aerospace giant McDonnell Douglas. The measure had been quietly inserted into the bill, after it had passed the House and the Senate, by Republican Senator Kit Bond of Missouri, where McDonnell Douglas is based, and by House whip Delay...
Alerted by Buse, McCain was soon on the floor, threatening to delay the Senate's July 4 recess by demanding a separate vote on both projects. Eventually, Yellow Creek was removed from the bill, and the Clear Lake provision was modified to McCain's satisfaction. "There is still a belief that you can't get re-elected unless you bring home the bacon,'' says McCain. "I don't think that's the way voters feel anymore ... They don't understand why, when we're asking people to make a sacrifice on Medicare, we feel we can afford these other kinds...
Recent violence between Hindus and Muslims in India is a result of the buse of religion for political aims, an Indian parliament official told 30 people gathered at Lowell House yesterday...