Porker of the Month: Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison

CAGW | November 7, 2009 

 Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) has named Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) Porker of the Month for loading up her goodie bag just before Halloween as she prepares to leave the Senate to run for governor of Texas.  While claiming to be a fiscal conservative, the four-term senator requested 149 pork-barrel projects costing $1.6 billion in authorization and appropriations bills for fiscal year 2010.  On September 28, 2009, she told the Austin American-Statesman, “I’m proud of being able to garner Texans’ fair share of their tax dollars.”  “Sen. Hutchison is repeating the same old insidious quackery about the earmarking process:  that it can be made accountable and that it somehow levels the spending playing field,” said CAGW President Tom Schatz.  “The only fair way to distribute the taxpayers’ money is to eliminate the practice altogether and instead work to ensure that every dime of taxpayer money is spent using the budget laws and rules that [members of Congress] themselves established.”  For personifying the tiresome hypocrisy of some members of Congress who want to claim the badge of fiscal conservatism while continuing to abscond with billions of dollars in wasteful pork projects, CAGW names Sen. Hutchison the October Porker of the Month.  Read more about the Porker of the Month.  

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One Response to “Porker of the Month: Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison”

  1. Indianapolis Joe Rogers on November 8th, 2009 1:06 pm

    Kay Bailey Hutchison is such a RINO, but she thinks she can unseat a real conservative in the Texas Republican primary in March? What is she smoking?

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