Will It Have A Bar?
Via Matt Welch, from the USA Today:
The measure contains funding for a new destroyer and 10 C-17 cargo planes that the Pentagon did not ask for. It also includes hundreds of smaller earmarks for projects of special interest to individual lawmakers, among them $25 million for a World War II museum in New Orleans and $20 million for the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate in Boston, a kind of think tank dedicated to the legacy of the late senator.
Maybe its not as bad as it sounds. Maybe its just a driving school.
NormD:
While generally I don't like Congress overriding the Pentagon I am suspicious when the Pentagon always insists it needs more fighters but never needs more transports. I think we need more C-17s.
October 7, 2009, 2:55 pm