[WASHINGTONTIMES] President Joe Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem mschine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family...... ’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure package is set to be a boon for the wife of Sen. Joe Manchin ...Dem senator-for-life from West Virginia. Manchin is one of the approximately one Dem senators who exhibits more integrity than Jello, often even representing his constituents... III, a West Virginia Democrat and key swing vote for the White House’s agenda.
Mr. Biden’s legislation, as written, greatly expands funding for the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC). The federal agency, which is responsible for promoting economic development in the 13 states that make up Appalachia, is led by Mr. Manchin’s wife, Gayle.
According to language included within the infrastructure bill, which was released Sunday night, the ARC is set to receive an additional billion dollars over the next four years. The new funding is set to increase the agency’s federal budget by more than 50% annually.
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For crying out loud, these lefties despite their claims to being environmentalists sure do destroy a lot of trees. Does anybody read these bills. Must have a tremendous amount of pork in it. Ima thinking the American people are getting hosed once again--the devil is in the details.
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Instead of these crazy bills, let's just give each member of Congress $10,000,000 to spend as they see fit. They could help their constituents, they could blow it all on booze and broads, invade Somalia, whatever. No questions asked. It would be a lot cheaper than the infrastructure bill and would accomplish the same purpose.
Posted by: Matt ||
08/03/2021 12:36 Comments ||
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#4
Make it $10,000,000,000. and the US taxpayer would still come out ahead by a very substantial margin.
It requires specific language to make sure statutes are modified to allow port barrel projects and then to define the pork barrel project.
and 'infrastructure' is just a name for 'anything some rep wants funded' so it includes all manner of projects, not just highways and rail and transit
Posted by: Lord Garth ||
08/03/2021 17:36 Comments ||
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#5 No, it doesn't include the regulations.As of 2014, the latest year I could find on quick review, the Code of Federal Regulations has over 175,000 pages. So another 10,000 pages or so won't really matter. It's almost like they were trying to discourage people from knowing what the law is.
Posted by: Matt ||
08/03/2021 17:56 Comments ||
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I agree w Matt on this.
The legislation passed frequently establishes or modifies, the U.S.Code. There are 50+ titles of the USC, some of these are thousands of pages long.
Sometimes a federal agency will adopt USC language verbatim in the CFR, sometimes it will create additional language. In fact frequently, the USC language will require the Secretary of some department to promulgate regulations to execute the USC
Posted by: Lord Garth ||
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In fact I suspect actual 'infrastructure' expenditures are only a minor part of the bill. the bulk of it is pork projects, studies for things like "how fast Ketchup flows down an incline'. Not to mention Planned child sacrifices parenthood, NAACP, New Socialist Green Deal, etc... All hidden in the bowels of this 2700 page monstrosity.
And the will be given only a few hours to read the entire thing.
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