The Fierce Urgency of Pork

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Author(s)	Charles Krauthammer
Source	The Washington Post
Date	February 6, 2009
URL	http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/05/AR2009020502766.html
Quote	"It's the essential fraud of rushing through a bill in which the normal rules (committee hearings, finding revenue to pay for the programs) are suspended on the grounds that a national emergency requires an immediate job-creating stimulus -- and then throwing into it hundreds of billions that have nothing to do with stimulus, that Congress's own budget office says won't be spent until 2011 and beyond, and that are little more than the back-scratching, special-interest, lobby-driven parochialism that Obama came to Washington to abolish. He said."

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This item argues against the position Act should be passed on the topic American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.