The bill and accompanying reports contain 6,714 earmarks costing $8.3 billion, Coburn says. Twenty-one Republicans and four Democrats who voted for the immediate ban on earmarks claimed them in the bill.
An article from The Associated Press on the ~$1,300,000,000,000 federal spending bill. That last bit, the hypocrisy, is one reason why I’m a bit cynical about my government.
