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A Republican congressman has earmarked $5 million to build a train in California that would connect partygoers with the Coachella Music Festival every year.
Real live pig to help with the visual. one veteran senator says some love the pet projects to win lawmaker support. >> incredibly there is a movement to restore earmarks. to restore earmarks in the name of being able to pass legislation more easily. i.e. bribe. if you bribe someone, then therefore they'd be more likely to vote for a piece of legislation. >> and we've noticed during the earmark moratorium its been harder to pass some bills and so some have talked about the possibility of bringing back the earmarks jon. >> okay. what about progress in cutting pork any signs there? >> well there ...
the pig -- i mean, they will eat anything, won't they? they are sort of cute but they're pigs and the watch dog group citizens against government waste, sorry, i mean, what are those little spirit i spots? something is en dearing but it is not about lawmakers. we brought some of these little friends along from the farm. better than a lot of things they usually eat, isn't it? the good news first. pork is down. since the big push by lawmakers to ban earmarks and appropriations bills we have seen an improvement in capitol hill and don't say that often. we want to emphasize good news and...
happening today with the former massachusetts governor, he's trying to move beyond all of this, obviously. he's been sort of giving his prebuttal to the president's state of the union address tonight and they have sort of been showing us these postcards from the edge of the housing crisis and financial crisis in this country. earlier today mitt romney gave his speech inside an abandoned warehouse that used to be an old drywall factory and here we are now standing in front of a house that's been foreclosed on in southwest florida. so this is what the romney campaign feels like has bee...
John boehner announced his party will look overall earmarks. >> it's important to have a conversation about a earmark moratorium, and i am talking about a real moratorium, because there is no way to be halfway pregnant on this issue. >> reporter: remember that bridge to nowhere that was never built? that would still be okay because it was not tacked on to a spending bill, but attached to a highway measure and the money went to the state of alaska and not a business. and then the jets the pentagon did not want, but last year congress set aside 2$2.5 billio for them anyway, and that request woul...