More Truth about Hillary

Put the Brakes on the Federal Spending Locomotive
Dear MARK,

TELL CONGRESS TO SUSTAIN THE VETO OF H.R. 3043, THE LABOR/HHS APPROPRIATIONS BILL.
Little has been done to stop the massive increase in domestic spending Congress has passed in recent years. Now, as he promised, President Bush has vetoed the funding bill for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and Education. This bill is almost $10 billion over the budget request sent to Congress. It is filled with billions of dollars in pork projects and programs that have no relation to the federal government. On Thursday, the House will move to override the president's veto and destroy any attempt at future spending reductions.
TAKE ACTION NOW! CLICK HERE TO TELL YOUR MEMBER OF CONGRESS TO STOP WASTEFUL SPENDING AND URGE A "NO" VOTE ON THE MOTION TO OVERRIDE THE VETO OF H.R. 3043, THE LABOR/HHS APPROPRIATIONS BILL.

Hillary's Hippie Museum is Back
Liberals in Congress will say that this veto will hurt health and education programs, but just the opposite is the case. In a rare victory, Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) succeeded in eliminating a $1 million earmark by Hillary Clinton for a museum in upstate New York which commemorates the Woodstock Festival of 1969 and transferred the funds to women and children's programs.
The museum, which earlier this year advertised a "Hippiefest" so that visitors could "return to the flower-powered days of the 1960s," is run by multi-millionaire Alan Gerry, a major contributor to Clinton's presidential campaign. Clinton was so embarrassed she refused to defend this project on the floor of the Senate.

But guess what? The House/Senate conference committee removed the language barring funds for this project. When faced with the choice between funds for women and children's programs and a contributor's pet project, the Liberals' choice is clear.
CONSERVATIVES WHO WANT TO REDUCE SPENDING SHOULD TAKE ACTION NOW! CLICK HERE TO LET YOUR MEMBER OF CONGRESS KNOW YOU WANT TO SUSTAIN THE PRESIDENT'S VETO OF H.R. 3043 AND VOTE "NO" ON THE MOTION TO OVERRIDE.
Vanity Thy Name is Congress
It is no wonder that members of Congress have become addicted to earmarks, 2, 215 of them in this bill alone, when they get the projects named after them. There's $41 million for the Byrd Honors Program, named after Senate Appropriations Chairman Robert Byrd (D-WVA), a scholarship program with no financial need requirements.Example are endless...The Centers for Disease Control's mission is to "promote health and quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury and disability." One way they are carrying this out is spending $106 million on a communications center that the Wall Street Journal says includes a sloping "greenscape" with streams, a waterfall and Japanese gardens with fountains.

No complaints from Congress, perhaps because the building, located in Atlanta, Georgia, is named after the powerful appropriator from Iowa, Senator Thomas R. Harkin. Perhaps that's why he added $5.1 million in the bill for "audio visual integration" at the center. Then there's $1 million for the Thomas Daschle public policy center in South Dakota, lest the former Senate Majority Leader turned lobbyist's name fade from memory.

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! CLICK HERE TO CONTACT YOUR MEMBER OF CONGRESS AND URGE A "NO" VOTE ON THE MOTION TO OVERRIDE THE PRESIDENT'S VETO OF H.R. 3043, THE LABOR/HHS APPROPRIATIONS BILL.

Some of the earmarks are obvious political payoffs, such as the $3.7 million in non-competitive grants to programs operated by the AFL-CIO. Despite the new rules of "openness" passed by the Congress, no member of Congress has been openly identified as the sponsor of this earmark.
Sometimes it's the agencies themselves that are the culprit. The same Centers for Disease Control mentioned above spend $1.7 million of taxpayer money to fund an advisor for Hollywood doctor dramas - a service Hollywood studios pay private experts hundreds of thousands of dollars every year..This would be laughable if the work of this agency was not a serious matter. Then there's the seemingly endless list of projects that have nothing to do with the federal government. $400,000 for Jazz at Lincoln Center (another Hillary earmark), $300,000 for the Des Moines Art Center (Harkin again), $250,000 for the Alaska Sea-life Center (Alaska Senator Stevens, known as the "King of Pork") and $500,000 for the Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy in Las Vegas (Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, of course), to name a very few.

CLICK HERE TO TAKE ACTION NOW AND PUT THE BRAKES ON RUNAWAY SPENDING IN WASHINGTON. TELL YOUR MEMBER OF CONGRESS TO SUSTAIN THE PRESIDENT'S VETO OF H.R. 3043 AND VOTE "NO" ON THE MOTION TO OVERRIDE.
For all you do to advance conservative free-market principles, we at the American Conservative Union are most appreciative.
Sincerely,

J. William Lauderback Executive Vice PresidentAmerican Conservative Union