Spend, spend, spend - USAToday
WASHINGTON — Three months after promising to curtail spending on pet legislative projects, House Democrats have salted the Iraq emergency spending bill with $3.7 billion for farm interests that make significant donations to Democrats.
Rep. Sanford Bishop, a Georgia Democrat who refers to himself as "the peanut congressman," makes no apologies for helping to put $74 million into the spending bill to cover storage fees for peanut growers.
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