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Senate Pauses on Health Care to Move to $450 Bln Spending Bill

By Philip Klein on 12.10.09 @ 3:43PM

The Senate just voted to take a pause on the health care debate after 11 days, and move to a $450 billion omnibus spending bill.

Sen. John McCain opened up debate on the measure, which combines six spending bills into one, by blasting it for containing 4,752 earmarks costing $3.7 billion.

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Kevin Miller| 12.10.09 @ 5:56PM

Only $3.7 Billion? Chickenfeed in Obama's world.

After all, it's only his money ooooops our money!

A billion, here, a billion there, 787 billion over there ... you know what they say, pretty soon .........

Roy| 12.10.09 @ 11:01PM

A trillion here and a trillion there, pretty soon you're talking about fake money..

But yeah, the earmark thing is wholly irrelevant blather and that has never been more clear than the fact that somehow there are only "3.7 billion" in earmarks when we already passed $800 billion of raw pork. So why didn't that count? Well, it was allocated by unaccountable bureaucrats, not the elected representatives of the people. Umm..yay?