McCain takes aim at earmarks
He says money for pork projects such as a planned Iowa rain forest could have been used for bridge safety inspections.
Arizona Republican John McCain suggested Saturday that congressional earmarks such as $48 million for a proposed indoor rain forest near Pella contributed to last week's collapse of the highway bridge in Minneapolis.
"We spend approximately $20 billion of fuel tax money on pork barrel earmark projects," McCain said. "Maybe if we had done it right, some of that money would have gone to inspect that bridge. Maybe the 200,000 people that cross that ...
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