Jack Murtha and the Center for Instrumented Critical Infrastructure
Posted by Moonage on 18 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: Ethics
Jack Murtha pushed through one of those earmarks everyone loves to pick on. This one is for a paltry $1,000,000 to go to a company called Concurrent Technologies to manage something called the Center for Instrumented Critical Infrastructure. Representative Jeff Flake couldn’t figure out if the Center for Instrumented Critical Infrastructure even existed, so he asked. So, Flake proposed an amendment to take that money out of the picture since no one knew who they were or what they would be doing. Murtha insisted it stay citing the fact that if they don’t use it, it’s not spent. So, it went to a vote. You wanna guess the breakdown of how it ended up?
| Ayes | Noes | PRES | NV | |
| Democratic | 2 | 223 | 9 | |
| Republican | 96 | 103 | 3 | |
| Independent | ||||
| TOTALS | 98 | 326 | 12 |
Now, we can sort of expect the Republicans to not go along with it, since Nancy Pelosi has labeled them the exclusive members of the Culture of Corruption who are ate up with irresponsible spending. So, how did Nancy respond with this request to remove $1,000,000 from an entity that doesn’t exist and no one knows who they are or what they will even do with it? She didn’t show up to vote. Quite a statement on earmark transparency dontcha think? It WAS an issue when the Republicans were in charge. It’s forgotten now.
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