Jorge
06-26-2007, 12:04 PM
What is Suzanne Gamboa's (from Associated Press) point here?
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Politics
"Dr. No" says yes to government funding for his district. (http://www.examiner.com/a-799760~_Dr__No__says_yes_to_government_funding_for _his_district_.html)
Jun 26, 2007 12:48 PM (1 hr 1 min ago)
By SUZANNE GAMBOA, AP
WASHINGTON (Map, News) - He's known as "Dr. No" for all his votes against government spending, including a medal for the pope and civil rights leader Rosa Parks. But Rep. Ron Paul isn't saying no to spending in his district.
Paul, a presidential candidate and physician, has requested earmarks for about 50 items, largely for water projects, according to request letters released by his office.
Although he is a Republican, Paul espouses Libertarian values calling for limited government.
Those values led him to be the lone dissenter in a 2000 House vote to award a Congressional Gold Medal to John Paul II because of the cost to taxpayers.
But in written requests Paul submitted to the House Appropriations Committee, he asked for $8.6 million for the Army Corps of Engineers to maintain the Texas City Channel and $10 million for the Galveston Rail Causeway Bridge.
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Full article HERE (http://www.examiner.com/a-799760~_Dr__No__says_yes_to_government_funding_for _his_district_.html) or HERE (http://www.myfoxhouston.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=3602564&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.3.1)
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Politics
"Dr. No" says yes to government funding for his district. (http://www.examiner.com/a-799760~_Dr__No__says_yes_to_government_funding_for _his_district_.html)
Jun 26, 2007 12:48 PM (1 hr 1 min ago)
By SUZANNE GAMBOA, AP
WASHINGTON (Map, News) - He's known as "Dr. No" for all his votes against government spending, including a medal for the pope and civil rights leader Rosa Parks. But Rep. Ron Paul isn't saying no to spending in his district.
Paul, a presidential candidate and physician, has requested earmarks for about 50 items, largely for water projects, according to request letters released by his office.
Although he is a Republican, Paul espouses Libertarian values calling for limited government.
Those values led him to be the lone dissenter in a 2000 House vote to award a Congressional Gold Medal to John Paul II because of the cost to taxpayers.
But in written requests Paul submitted to the House Appropriations Committee, he asked for $8.6 million for the Army Corps of Engineers to maintain the Texas City Channel and $10 million for the Galveston Rail Causeway Bridge.
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Full article HERE (http://www.examiner.com/a-799760~_Dr__No__says_yes_to_government_funding_for _his_district_.html) or HERE (http://www.myfoxhouston.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=3602564&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.3.1)