It’s not just a bill for pulling troops out of Iraq. What you don’t read in the media is that this bill also includes:
- $283 million for the Milk Income Loss Contract program
- $100 million for the Democratic and Republican Conventions
- $74 million for peanut storage costs in Georgia (Both Georgia senators voted nay).
- $60.4 million for salmon fisheries
- $50 million for asbestos mitigation at the U.S. Capitol Plant
- $25 million for spinach growers in California (Both California Senators voted yea).
- $24 million for sugar beet growers
- $20 million to combat Mormon crickets in Nevada (Nevada Sen. Harry Reid is at the forefront of pushing the bill. Now you know why).
- $6.4 million for the House of Representatives’ salaries and expense accounts, and
- $3.5 million for Capitol tours.
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Why Bush should veto the Iraq bill put forth by the Democrats
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