Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. Speaks to reporters after the weekly caucus luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, January 25, 2011.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. Speaks to reporters after the weekly caucus luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, January 25, 2011.
Barack Obama's top allies in the Senate on Tuesday rejected President calling for a ban on the practice of filling projects receiving state spending bills that devotes known.
Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., Said the president "has enough power already," and noted that Obama's embrace Tuesday night is sponsored by an ear tag ban by the Republicans "speaks a lot. "
Reid made the remarks at a press conference in which he otherwise praised Obama on Tuesday in advance of the State of the Union address.
Reid is an experienced practitioner of the assignment, in which the legislature direct projects such as new roads, grants to local police and community development grants for their states and congressional districts.
Obama often says he opposes affects, but he accepted the bills repeated in larger expenditures. The ban was affected mainly by the Speaker of the House John Boehner, driven not send any spending bills Obama vows with them.
Opponents say affects too often divert money into projects to waste dollars. An explosion of the allocation under GOP control of Congress in the late 1990s and early 2000s has triggered a "pay to play" culture where lobbyists and executives in search of fat affects the system with contributions campaign.
The ban book is one of the few areas in which Obama and the tea party activists agree, but Reid said the idea wrongly assumes "the power vested in the legislative branch of government. And I think that's the wrong thing to do. "
Tidak ada komentar:
Posting Komentar