9/02/2005 06:14:00 AM|||Rick|||

Congress is convening early in an emergency session to get relief funds to the Katrina areas. They will talk about how hard their work is to find the money, but it's actually quite simple.

The recently passed highway bill has a price tag of $286.4 billion. President Bush said it was $30B over his budget but he signed it anyway. Other experts say that the bill contains over $50B in pure pork.

By repealing the highway bill, Congress can put its priorities straight. First, pass the emergency relief bill from the $286B, then allocate the rest to a new highway bill, presumably with less pork and more for real...highways.

|||112566733229334347|||Repeal the Highway Bill