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Stimulus serves up Obama pork
June 16, 2009
By Eamon Javers
Politico
It became a sort of poster child for fiscal responsibility — a clean-coal power plant in Illinois that was one of then-Sen. Barack Obama’s pet projects. Democrats insisted they were so serious about keeping pork out of the stimulus bill that it was President Obama himself who blocked the FutureGen project from the massive spending package. …
The watchdog group Project on Government Oversight also reacted with skepticism. “Whenever federal funds are appropriated or have the appearance of being ‘steered’ to a specific company or cause, it deserves a higher level of scrutiny to ensure that the project is one that benefits all taxpayers and is not simply one which unduly benefits a few,” said the group’s director of communications, Marthena Cowart.
