10-23-2005, 02:27 PM
Pork projects should be fought by not allowing them in as amendments, or amending them out of bills if they come in as riders. As I understand it, this was an attempt to cut the legs out of a project at appropriations after the project was already passed in another law? If so, it should surprise nobody that it failed so miserably. The nature of the Senate is so dependant on dealmaking and coalition building that if things were done this way, I'm not sure anything would ever get passed in the first place. Not that this would necessarily be a bad thing...