Congressional porkers carpet-bombing Labor-HHS with air drops

Here’s just a few of the earmarks Senate and House conferees agreed to add to the Labor-HHS appropriations bill. Air-dropping earmarks like this insulates them from any kind of floor debate or public discussion because conference reports can only be voted up or down, they can’t be amended.

1.       South Dakota State University ,
Brookings
,
SD
for the Thomas Daschle Center for Public Service and Representative Democracy

Sponsor:      Byrd, Reid, Johnson, Harkin

Amount:      $1,000,000