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Cloture Motion
(1996),
tagged as
faa, aviation, earmarks, cloture, appropriations, federal aviation administration, airports
Newest Quotes
One must ask, how could these Board members have been upholding their
fiduciary responsibilities by agreeing to increase Amtrak's obligations
at the very time Amtrak is looming on the brink of bankr...
For the
second year in a row, Congress is on the verge of spending hundreds of
millions of dollars for purely parochial reasons, while rejecting a
proposal that would cost just $6 million per year ...
If the Republican leadership and the chairmen of these committees
continue to spend taxpayers' dollars in this profligate manner, sooner
or later the American people will repudiate those actions. I ...