Pelosi will give up SF funds for Katrina, DeLay will NOT do the same in TX

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/09/21/MNGDMER7HE1.DTL&feed=rss.news

Pelosi willing to give up S.F. funds for recovery

Edward Epstein, Chronicle Washington Bureau

Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Washington -- House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco said Tuesday she was willing to return to the federal Treasury $70 million designated for San Francisco projects in the new highway and transportation bill and use the money to help pay for Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts.

Her counterpart, House Majority Leader Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas, said that while he would consider cutting all other domestic discretionary spending to raise the tens of billions of dollars needed for Katrina relief, it was a bad idea to take money from transportation projects.

His suburban Houston district is slated to get $64.4 million under the bill, and DeLay has said that he brought home an additional $50 million for freeway projects in the metropolitan area. He also helped secure $324 million in funding credits for Houston's light rail construction.

Pelosi, a longtime Appropriations Committee member who gave up that post when she became Democratic leader in late 2002, said she had always opposed the practice of lawmakers' writing legislation that specifies federal money for their special district projects. "I would give them up to help Katrina victims," she said. "The people of San Francisco would be very proud of that.''

[merci_me]

1. It will be interesting to see if he rides this coming

hurricane out in his SugarLand (Houston) swankadinkia or if he finds it necessary to be in DC watching Bill O'Liely show him pictures.

[tularetom]

2. Unfortunately it looks like he won't even have to think about it

Rita is headed right for the bastards district. When it trashes a few McMansions every repub in the house will fall all over themselves voting tons of money to replace them.

And once again I'm reminded of the line in Mel Brooks' History of the World Part One

Roman Senator - "Does the senate want to continue to build palace after palace for the rich or does it want to do the right thing and build decent housing for the poor?"

Senators (in unison) - "Fuck the poor!!"

[Gyre]

3. I don't get this.

More unfunded federal mandates than funded. Blue state California getting the shortest end of that stick (probably of all the states), and she says she's giving our $ back to the effin feds who can't find their asses with both hands?

Why don't we make those losers COMPLETELY fund the reconstruction rather than putting is back on people who aren't getting the government they pay for already? Why should we cover their asses in Washington, when they're already paying for an illegal "war" on the people of Iraq? Something is effed up here!

Gyre

[burythehatchet]

4. Tha's precisely how one would expect a liberal and a fascist

to behave. Is anyone surprised?

[leesa]

5. He probably spent it already