Earmarks Sap Energy Chief's Priorities

Another promise not kept by Obama. Not that he could keep it. But those promises certainly helped get him elected President. Mr. Obama never had the power, nor will he ever have the power, to change this corrupt system.

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"When President Barack Obama signed a spending bill for the 2009 fiscal year in March, he said he wanted earmark-laden legislation to be an "end to the old way of doing business, and the beginning of a new era of responsibility and accountability."
Congress, however, hasn't given up earmarks -- the term for seemingly parochial projects funded at the behest of lawmakers.
The Obama administration didn't request these energy projects; it has proposed eliminating many of them.
Critics of the proposals -- which total more than $400 million in the legislation nearing Senate approval -- say they threaten to distract the Energy Department at a time when it is trying to disburse roughly $37 billion that Congress approved earlier this year for fuel-efficient vehicles, a modernized electric grid and other projects."
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