$1.3 billion for NASA (including $450 million for “science” at NASA)
$100 million to clean up sites used in early U.S. atomic energy program
$10 million for urban canals
$2 billion for manufacturing advanced batteries for hybrid cars
$1.5 billion for carbon capture projects under sec. 703 of P.L. 110-140 (though section only authorizes $1 billion for five years)
$300 million for hybrid and electric cars for federal employees
$198 million to design and furnish the DHS headquarters
$255 million for “priority procurements” at Coast Guard (polar ice breaker)
$500 million for State and local fire stations
$180 million for construction of Bureau of Land Management facilities
$500 million for wildl...

$1.3 billion for NASA (including $450 million for “science” at NASA)
$100 million to clean up sites used in early U.S. atomic energy program
$10 million for urban canals
$2 billion for manufacturing advanced batteries for hybrid cars
$1.5 billion for carbon capture projects under sec. 703 of P.L. 110-140 (though section only authorizes $1 billion for five years)
$300 million for hybrid and electric cars for federal employees
$198 million to design and furnish the DHS headquarters
$255 million for “priority procurements” at Coast Guard (polar ice breaker)
$500 million for State and local fire stations
$180 million for construction of Bureau of Land Management facilities
$500 million for wildland fire management
$110 million for construction for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
$522 million for construction for the Bureau of Indian Affairs
$650 million for abandoned mine sites
$75 million for the Smithsonian Institution
$1.2 billion for summer jobs for youth
$412 million for CDC headquarters
$500 million earmark for NIH facilities in Bethesda, MD
$160 million for “volunteers” at the Corp. for National and Community Service
$750 earmark for the National Computer Center in MD
$224 million for International Boundary and Water Commission – U.S. and Mexico
$850 million for Amtrak
$100 million for lead paint hazard reduction

Sen. Schumer is partially right, it seems half the people (or more) could give a damn about what these jokers in Washington do with our money. Apparently many bought into the left's mantra that these outlandish programs will be funded mainly by big business and rich Republicans, and will not affect them much, wrong.

This pig of a bill Congress passed is doomed for failure and we all are losers for it. Obama just pissed his presidency away on a bad gamble without getting republicans to sign on, to share the blame when it fails.

When this fiasco plays out to its inevitable end, failure, many will recognize the goals were unattainable, unrealistic, and totally socialistic. However ...

Sen. Schumer is partially right, it seems half the people (or more) could give a damn about what these jokers in Washington do with our money. Apparently many bought into the left's mantra that these outlandish programs will be funded mainly by big business and rich Republicans, and will not affect them much, wrong.

This pig of a bill Congress passed is doomed for failure and we all are losers for it. Obama just pissed his presidency away on a bad gamble without getting republicans to sign on, to share the blame when it fails.

When this fiasco plays out to its inevitable end, failure, many will recognize the goals were unattainable, unrealistic, and totally socialistic. However the damage is done, it's no longer just a horrible thought, it’s a fact that we all will have to live with and pay for.

To bad politics trumped logic at such an awful time in our history.

Anyone who believes this will do anything except plunge America into a depression and triple (or more) our debt, or do anything to kick start our economy by providing jobs also reside in fantasyland.

One thing I feel would have been appropriate in this massive bill would have been a few million (or billion) earmarked for black paint, to cover all the windows of Congress and the White House, so much for transparency Mr. President!

On attacks by Republicans that various programs in the economic stimulus plan are not stimulative

Coburn is hardly alone among Republicans in believing that major portions of the Obama stimulus plan aren't stimulative.

Said Republican Rep. Kenny Marchant of Texas: "This bill, quite frankly, was an attempt to sneak hundreds of billions of dollars in pork into an 'emergency' bill under the guise of 'stimulus.'"

Sen. Charles Grassley and other Republicans say they have less problem with the proposed tax cuts and shovel-ready projects where the money can...

On attacks by Republicans that various programs in the economic stimulus plan are not stimulative

Coburn is hardly alone among Republicans in believing that major portions of the Obama stimulus plan aren't stimulative.

Said Republican Rep. Kenny Marchant of Texas: "This bill, quite frankly, was an attempt to sneak hundreds of billions of dollars in pork into an 'emergency' bill under the guise of 'stimulus.'"

Sen. Charles Grassley and other Republicans say they have less problem with the proposed tax cuts and shovel-ready projects where the money can be spent in two years. Grassley suggests, "Cut all the spending out, keep the stimulus, do almost as much stimulus as you want to do and can do in two years, and keep the tax provisions. And what that adds up to, it would add up to a lot less than $900 billion. But whatever it adds up to doesn't bother me as much as what's in the $900 billion bill that's going to obligate us for the next 50 years as opposed to the next two years."

One thing I feel would have been appropriate in this massive bill would have been a few million (or billion) earmarked for black paint, to cover all the windows of Congress and the White House, so much for transparency Mr. President!

Congressional Offices Don't Have the Stimulus Bill, Lobbyists Do

February 12, 2009 04:14 PM ET

By Paul Bedard, Washington Whispers

We're receiving E-mails from Capitol Hill staffers expressing frustration that they can't get a copy of the stimulus bill agreed to last night at a price of $789 billion. What's more, s...

One thing I feel would have been appropriate in this massive bill would have been a few million (or billion) earmarked for black paint, to cover all the windows of Congress and the White House, so much for transparency Mr. President!

Congressional Offices Don't Have the Stimulus Bill, Lobbyists Do

February 12, 2009 04:14 PM ET

By Paul Bedard, Washington Whispers

We're receiving E-mails from Capitol Hill staffers expressing frustration that they can't get a copy of the stimulus bill agreed to last night at a price of $789 billion. What's more, staffers are complaining about who does have a copy: K Street lobbyists. E-mails one key Democratic staffer: "K Street has the bill, or chunks of it, already, and the congressional offices don't. So, the Hill is getting calls from the press (because it's leaking out) asking us to confirm or talk about what we know—but we can't do that because we haven't seen the bill. Anyway, peeps up here are sort of a combo of confused and like, 'Is this really happening?'" Reporters pressing for details, meanwhile, are getting different numbers from different offices, especially when seeking the details of specific programs.

Worse, there seem to be several different versions of what was agreed upon, with some officials circulating older versions of the package that seems to still be developing. Leadership aides said that it will work out later today and promised that lawmakers will get time to review the bill before Friday's vote.