Top Democrat: ‘Border surge’ amendments boosts corporate
cronyism
Breitbart – Wynton Hall – 6/22/2013
During a Friday floor
speech, Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) said the Corker-Hoeven
border security amendment would be a boon to the corporate interests who are
quietly backing the immigration reform bill.
Leahy, who says he will
begrudgingly support the Corker-Hoeven immigration amendment offered by the
so-called “Gang of Two”—Sens. Bob Corker (R-TN) and John Hoeven (R-ND)—says it
“reads like a Christmas wish list for Halliburton.”
Leahy said the Corker-Hoeven
amendment, touted as a "surge" to border security, amounts to a crony
capitalist giveaway to the many big money interests quietly backing immigration
reform.
“I am sure there are federal
contracting firms high-fiving at the prospect of all of the spending demanded
by Senate Republicans in this amendment,” said
Leahy during his floor speech on Friday.
He added: “The litany of
expensive services, technology, and hardware mandated by this package is
combined with an inexplicable waiver of many normal contracting
rules. This is a potential recipe for waste, fraud and abuse.”
READER COMMENT: In other words, the legislation is
acknowledged to be corrupt, but just not quite corrupt enough to oppose. So,
minimally corrupt is now the best we can hope for from our 'trusted leaders.'
Disgusting!
READER COMMENT: Back in 2007 Rep. Tom Tancredo had passed a
bill for a 700 mile double-layer fence. Bush signed off on $1.2 Billion to
build (imagine that!) the fence. Michael Chertoff (heading DHS at the time)
took the $1.2 Billion stating that the money was in the jursidiction of DHS.
Between Chertoff and Harry Reid the money was disbursed for a phony
"virtual fence," which has long since been abandoned.
Now they want to fool us twice!
Now they want to fool us twice!
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