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Murtha nabs $150M pork
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Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), chairman of the House Appropriations defense
panel, has secured the most earmarked dollars in the 2008 military spending
bill, followed closely by the panel's ranking member Rep. Bill Young
(R-Fla.).
Even though Young secured 52 earmarks, worth $117.2 million - and
co-sponsored at least $27 million worth of others - Murtha's 48 earmarks
amount to a total of $150.5 million, according to a database compiled by the
watchdog organization Taxpayers for Common Sense (TCS)...
....Murtha, the defense industry's darling, has been known throughout his
tenure on the defense panel to shell out a large number of earmarks. His
biggest earmark in the bill is $23 million for the National Drug
Intelligence Center (NDIC), a move that sparked a fierce fight with Rep.
Todd Tiahrt (R-Kan.), who earlier this year voted in a private meeting to
strip Murtha's earmark.
The Bush administration requested $16 million to shut down the center, which
is in Murtha's district, because it replicated the work of a similar
center...
....Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) got her share of pork projects - 11
projects valued at $37.3 million...