2 - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, February 16, 1995 TI onW Lt Group reports congressional waste '^ . k L PO R T ICR Newsday WASHINGTON - Many mem- bers of Congress last year ran for re- election on pledges of cleaning up government waste and reducing the federal deficit. But as the elections approached, a watchdog group re- ported yesterday, lawmakers went on a porkbarrel orgy that ended up cost- ing taxpayers more than $10 billion. That was about $3 billion more than 1993, a non-election year. Yesterday, at a news conference that included two live pigs eating at a trough of play money, the non-parti- san Citizens Against Government Waste released its fifth annual "Pig Book," listing what it calls the most egregious examples of local projects that lawmakers insert in spending bills with little debate or accountability. The list included $23 million that Sen. Alfonse D'Amato (R-N.Y.) deliv- ered for a new federal courthouse in New York; $15 million for a footbridge from New Jersey to Ellis Island, a pet project of Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D- N.J.); and $17 million charged to the Pentagon for civilian sporting events, such as the Olympics. Tom Schatz, president of the group, which is mostly funded by dues of 600,000 members, said the billions in pork spending underscored the need for giving the president the line-item veto to eliminate specific projects. He was joined at the news conference by Sen. John McCain (R- Ariz.), a primary sponsor of a line- item veto proposal in the Senate. "The American people have fig- ured it out," McCain said. "They send money to Washington and not all of it comes back." The House of Representatives has adopted rules that may make it easier for lawmakers to target pork projects for elimination, and the freshmen members claim to be especially eager to avoid supporting pork. But the pros- pects for passage of a line-item veto appear to be fading. Senate Republi- cans, in fact, have split into warring camps over the precise wording of the veto law. Schatz conceded that some of the 88 projects listed in the Pig Book may be worthwhile, but he objected to the manner in which they were funded - usually without hearings, a presiden- tial request or even congressional authorization. As one example, he pointed to the spending bill for the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The House approved the bill without any special purpose grants, but the senators added $135 million in unau- thorized and non-competively- awarded grants. By the time the bill emerged from a joint House-Senate conference to iron out differences, even more grants had been added, for a total cost of $290 million. D'Amato sat on the HUD sub- committee of the Appropriations Committee, and the Pig Book says that more than $5 million went to grants in New York. D'Amato was unapologetic. "Sen. D'Amato is proud of fighting for New York's fair share of programs that are essential for a better quality of life for New Yorkers," a spokesman said. Ukraine THE STATE UNMVERSIIYOF NEW JERSEY for Educators RUTGErS June 27 - July 16, 1995 Kiev, Ivano-Frankivske, Lviv, stop in Budapest Visits to schools, colleges, agencies, cultural and historical sites. Credit available. Call Office of Continuing Education, Dr. David Muschinske, Executive Director - 908-932-1640, x205 or x206; FAX 908-932-1640 , %L& %ssL,, s s-~s ssffs, Have ideas for a news story? Send therm to the news desk at The Michigan Daily, 420 Maynard. Democrats blast GOP plan to limit presidential peacekeeping powers WASHINGTON-The House bitterly debated the Clinton administration's national security policies yesterday, as Democrats mounted a full-scale attack on a GOP proposal to limit the President's authority to send U.S. troops on U.N. peacekeeping missions. Brandishing letters of opposition from President Clinton and a group of former top generals and admirals, Democrats led by Rep. Lee H. Hamilton (D- Ind.), accused Republicans of trying to impinge on the President's constitu- tional powers and abrogate U.N. peacekeeping efforts. They also prepared amendments to dilute the proposed restrictions on peacekeeping and to weaken other provisions, which call for speeding deploy- ment of anti-ballistic missile defenses and for accepting Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic into NATO. Partisan rancor was so intense that, even before debate started, Democrats began procedural maneuvers intended to force the chamber to adjourn before any floor action. All were defeated on largely party-line votes. Buchanan moves for ionalappeal to the party's most conser- vative elements - including the bur- presidential bid geoning ranks of conservative Chris- tians-itremains to beseen whether he WASHINGTON - Commentator can attract sufficient financial and po- Patrick J. Buchanan, a pugnacious pro- litical support to emerge as more than a ponentof conservative economic popu- vehicle of protest. lism, plans to take the first formal steps toward entering the 1996 Republican Simpson's blood on presidential race today, advisers say. Buchanan, who challenged then- eX-wife's condo gate President Bush in the 1992 Republican primaries, will announce that he is form- LOS ANGELES -O.J. Simpson's ing an exploratory committee that will blood was found on the-rear gate of the allow him to begin raising money for condominium where his ex-wife and a the 1996 contest, the sources said. Poli- friend were slain last June, the prosecu- ticians typically form such committees tion said yesterday. as a prelude to formally entering a race. The bombshell disclosure by In a statement scheduled for release Deputy District Attorney Rockne today, Buchanan says he is moving Harmon, combined with previousrey- toward the race because the GOP needs elations linking Simpson to the crime a candidate who "will complete the scene, provides further incriminating conservative revolution that began in evidence against the football legend. 1992 and 1994." Preliminary DNA tests "are show- In 1992, Buchanan drew a strong ing that is Mr. Simpson's blood," vote against Bush in economically Harmon said during a hearing outside pressed New Hampshire, but saw his the jury's presence in which he argued appeal flag as the primary season went against giving the sample to the defense on. 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Women from China, without ligl the Philippines, Indonesia, Taiwan drugtraffick and the Netherlands also were en- is passed on slaved, they say. craft might I Many of the women have de- can be inter manded direct compensation from the The U.S Japanese government. ' gional coim Although the forum is non-gov- and South A ernmental, the North Koreans' travel the front lin across the border could help break the hemisphere current deadlock in bilateral relations. is shifting s The rival Koreas are not talking to The mov each other directly. Two South Ko- role of the U rean activists attended a similar fo- an effort to rum organized in Pyongyang, the the comman North's capital, in November 1993. - w e last contact between the orea has rejected recent an proposals to resume tacts. 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