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WSJ Recap on Failed Vote to Strip Murtha "Air-Pork"
Tuesday, September 22, 2009 11:03 AM
Last week the Senate failed to support an amendment offered by Sen. DeMint that would have struck funding for Rep. Murtha's favorite earmark - the Johnstown airport named after Rep. Murtha. In case you missed the story, the WSJ has a recap on the vote:
Mr. DeMint pleaded with his colleagues that "if we can't cut funding for this project, we can't cut anything in Washington" and that the Senate will have declared "there's no such thing as waste, there's no such thing as fraud and corruption." He lost, but voters keeping score can add it to their mental tally of why we have a $1.6 trillion deficit.
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