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Washington Talk; Congress Stumbles On Honors For Welk
1991
Overview
The appropriation was scorned outside the capital as the epitome of selfish pork barrel spending at a time when the poor, or even the military, were not being suitably taken care of. And though the appropriation is only $919 per member, it got little more respect in the Capitol. On the House floor, Representative Silvio Conte, Republican of Massachusetts, asked: \"What will they do for an encore? Earmark funds to renovate Guy Lombardo's speedboat? Or restore Artie Shaw's wedding tuxedo?\" North Dakota's entire House delegation, Representative Byron L. Dorgan, rose to protest. The Democratic lawmaker asked if the [Lawrence Welk] project's goal of developing tourism in a drought-ridden section of his state was much less worthy of Federal money than the Agricultural Hall of Fame in Bonner Springs, Kan. Then he proposed to rescind a few other recent appropriations: $590,000 for a vistor's center at Fort Larned National Historic site in Kansas; $125,000 for a study of Wilson Lake, Kansas; $150,000 for a feasibility study of a Pony Express visitors center in Marysville, Kansas, and $3,731,000 for the Throckmorton Plant Science Center at Kansas State University. And because an Ohio Republican, Representative John Kasich, had co-sponsored the [Jim Slattery] amendment, Mr. Dorgan proposed eliminating $516,000 appropriated to make a memorial of President William McKinley's Ohio home.
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New York Times Company
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