{"id":1282,"date":"2013-01-17T14:38:31","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T14:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=1282"},"modified":"2013-01-17T14:38:31","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T14:38:31","slug":"60-billion-sandy-bill-larded-with-pork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/01\/17\/60-billion-sandy-bill-larded-with-pork\/","title":{"rendered":"$60 BILLION SANDY BILL LARDED WITH PORK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On top of the $17 billion bill, Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ) offered another amendment that added $33.7 billion to the aid package. That measure passed 228-192, with 20 Republicans from unaffected areas voting for it. As Human Events notes, the Frelinghuysen amendment was loaded with superfluous spending, including &#8220;$500 million for weather forecasting and to help create an ocean zoning planthe later one of Obama&#8217;s pet projects. Also included are $10 million for FBI salaries $2 billion for road construction across the country, as well as funding for the Head Start program, roof repairs at the Smithsonian, and $150 million for fisheries across the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/forum2\/index.php?t=msg&amp;goto=33536&amp;#msg_33536\">http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/forum2\/index.php?t=msg&amp;goto=33536&amp;#msg_33536<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On top of the $17 billion bill, Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ) offered another amendment that added $33.7 billion to the aid package. That measure passed 228-192, with 20 Republicans from unaffected areas voting for it. As Human Events notes, the Frelinghuysen amendment was loaded with superfluous spending, including &#8220;$500 million for weather forecasting and to help create an ocean zoning planthe later one of Obama&#8217;s pet projects. Also included are $10 million for FBI salaries $2 billion for road construction across the country, as well as funding for the Head Start program, roof repairs at the Smithsonian, and $150 million for fisheries across the country.&#8221; http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/forum2\/index.php?t=msg&amp;goto=33536&amp;#msg_33536<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}