Tax package passes, but concerns rise about spending bill

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5. They vote NO, but often hope YES,

to reward their corporate sponsors. A good example is senior Senate appropriations committee member Richard Shelby (R-AL). He angered even John McCain by forcing into the spending bill a provision worth hundreds of millions of dollars to an Alabama company that wants to import space rockets from Russia. But after loading up the spending bill with this and many other corrupt quid pro quos, he announced he's going to vote against it. His excuse is that it doesn't bar Syrian refugee resettlement! See http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/richard-shelby-oppose-sepnding-bill-216904