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Letter "K" » Keith Ashdown Quotes
«We used to think that Mr. Lewis would be a champion for smart spending. But he brought us the biggest increase in defense earmarking in history.»
Author: Keith Ashdown
«I guarantee we're going to come back to this after everything has been reviewed and find we paid Nordstrom prices when we should have been paying Wal-Mart costs.»
Author: Keith Ashdown
«I give him a C-minus. It's better than we've had, but we've got a long way to go to get this federal fiscal house in order. ... I would give him a much higher grade if he had vetoed just one (spending) bill.»
Author: Keith Ashdown
«It is a good reform. It creates an added deterrent to things being added (to conference reports) at the last minute.»
Author: Keith Ashdown
«The last thing on people's minds are these good investments. We are making terrible decisions on where money goes.»
Author: Keith Ashdown
«We've been in budgetary La-La Land.»
Author: Keith Ashdown
«There are thousands of quid pro quos that occur daily in the halls of Congress. Earmarking is the quo. It's what lawmakers can offer to lobbyists in exchange for political contributions and whatever else. It's part of the puzzle.»
Author: Keith Ashdown
«It's sending shivers down the spines of a lot of senators. They've thrown down the gauntlet here to other people. I believe this is probably a bargaining chip to try to move senators down the road to more earmarking reform.»
Author: Keith Ashdown
«This is age-old machine politics. You are taking care of other people so they take care of you.»
Author: Keith Ashdown
«One of the challenges of defense earmarks -- when you get initial bill 3 or 4 percent has a location tied to the earmark, then look at 535 releases and triangulate to figure out where the money is going.»
Author: Keith Ashdown
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