SUPPORT LINE-ITEM VETO LEGISLATION

Here's a copy of my email to my Congressman I sent today:

Jun 19, 2006

Representative John McHugh
United States House of Representatives
2333 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515-0001

Dear Representative McHugh,

This week you are scheduled to vote on H.R. 4890, the Legislative
Line-Item Veto Act of 2006.  This legislation will provide the
President with the ability to remove wasteful spending and
special-interest tax breaks from legislation while preserving
congressional power to appropriate funds.

With Line-Item Veto authority, the President can help ensure that
taxpayer dollars are not wasted on costly earmarks or wasteful
programs that are often tucked into bills behind closed doors, in the
dead of night.  As a taxpayer, I am disgusted by the proliferation of
self-serving, pork-barrel spending and outraged that during this time
of war and record deficits you are spending my hard-earned tax dollars
on "Bridges to Nowhere," indoor tropical rainforests, teapot
museums, and other frivolous projects.

The scandals surrounding convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff and former
Representative Randy "Duke" Cunningham have highlighted all
too clearly how parochial and special-interest earmarks corrupt
Congress and the legislative process.  Mr. Abramoff even called the
appropriations committees, "earmark favor factories"!

Your vote in favor of the Legislative Line-Item Veto Act of 2006 will
help restore fiscal discipline and accountability to Washington.  I
urge you to vote YES on H.R. 4890.

The amount of pork in bills is disgusting. The public knows it, the elected representatives know it, yet nothing is done about it.

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