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Pelosi calls for ethics probe of Young earmark
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| Last Edited | ArmyDem Apr 18, 2008 08:50am |
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| News Date | Thursday, April 17, 2008 02:50:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By Susan Crabtree
Posted: 04/17/08 04:18 PM [ET]
The Senate has approved a measure requiring the Department of Justice to investigate the controversial Coconut Road earmark connected to Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska).
Senators voted 64-28 to add the amendment to a bill making technical corrections to the 2005 highway bill, despite opposition from Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who on Thursday said the House ethics committee, and not Justice, should investigate the matter.
“I think that’s something the ethics committee should look at,” Pelosi told reporters.
The $10 million earmark for the Coconut Road interchange in Florida was placed in the massive 2005 highway bill after the House and Senate passed the bill but before it reached the president’s desk. The original language called only for improving and widening Interstate 75 in Ft. Myers, Fla. |
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