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Ichingcarpenter

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Tue May 21, 2013, 01:12 PM May 2013

Inhofe: Tornado aid ‘totally different’ from Hurricane Sandy aid

That was a “totally different” situation, Inhofe told MSNBC, arguing that the Sandy aid was filled with pork. There were “things in the Virgin Islands. They were fixing roads there and putting roofs on houses in Washington, D.C.”


“Everyone was getting in and exploiting the tragedy that took place,” he said. “That won’t happen in Oklahoma.”

Republicans who voted against the Sandy aid have cited the fact that some funds could go to the Virgin Islands as well as the $2 million allocated to the Smithsonian for roofs damaged by the storm as unnecessary pork. We don’t yet know what a congressional relief package for Oklahoma would look like, if one is necessary. As of Tuesday morning, FEMA has $11.6 billion in its Disaster Relief Fund.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/05/21/inhofe-tornado-totally-different-from-hurricane-sandy/

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Inhofe: Tornado aid ‘totally different’ from Hurricane Sandy aid (Original Post) Ichingcarpenter May 2013 OP
Inhofe is a fucking hypocrit! gopiscrap May 2013 #1
Save lives, end red state welfare, I mean farm subsidies! Dawson Leery May 2013 #2
So then propose a fucking bill without the fucking pork, you asshole. Zoeisright May 2013 #3
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