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Posted By: Byron Tripp
Monday February 22nd, 2010 - 8:12AM
Just as Kenneth E. Lamb and myself have stated and continue to state about the November election in 2010: What will change? If you still have "hope" that "change" will come with Republicans being elected to the House, you are very mistaken. It will be business as usual: stealing from you and me.
Written by By Alison Fitzgerald And Justin Blum - Courtesy of: www.bloomberg.com
Republicans Voting Against Stimulus Then Asked Obama for Money
Feb. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Alabama Republicans Jo Bonner and Robert Aderholt took to the U.S. House floor in July, denouncing the Obama administration’s stimulus plan for failing to boost employment. “Where are the jobs?” each of them asked.
Over the next three months, Bonner and Aderholt tried at least five times to steer stimulus-funded transportation grants to Alabama on grounds that the projects would help create thousands of jobs.
They joined more than 100 congressional Republicans and several Democrats who, after voting against the stimulus bill, wrote Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood seeking money from $1.5 billion the plan set aside for local road, bridge, rail and transit grants. The $862 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act passed last year with no Republican votes in the House and three in the Senate.
