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Article: House Porkbusters slip projects for bases into 1996 military construction budget.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- September 26, 1995
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WASHINGTON _ At least four members of a House caucus that fights pork barrel spending slipped pet projects for local bases into the 1996 military construction budget passed by the House last week.
All are projects that the Defense Department doesn't really want and Congress never authorized.
Instead, all were agreed to in last-minute favor-trading among the House and Senate Appropriations Committee conferees who set military construction spending for the fiscal year that starts Oct. 1.
By bipartisan tradition, conferees, whose job is to hash out differences between the two houses and produce a single bill acceptable to both, salt the unified measure ...