{"id":1782269,"date":"2022-12-21T06:08:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T11:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1782269"},"modified":"2022-12-21T06:48:21","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T11:48:21","slug":"rino-sen-shelby-slips-656-million-worth-of-earmarks-into-omnibus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rino-sen-shelby-slips-656-million-worth-of-earmarks-into-omnibus\/","title":{"rendered":"RINO Sen. Shelby Slips $656 Million Worth of Earmarks Into Omnibus"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frino-sen-shelby-slips-656-million-worth-of-earmarks-into-omnibus%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1782269&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-1243600316-1-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Outgoing Senate Appropriations Committee Vice Chair Richard Shelby (R-AL) slipped $656 million worth of earmarks into the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill.<\/p>\n<p>Congressional leaders <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/12\/20\/congress-releases-1-7-trillion-4155-page-omnibus-bill\/\">dropped <\/a>the $1.7 trillion, 4,155-page omnibus spending bill at 1:30 a.m. ET, giving lawmakers little time to digest the implications of the mammoth legislation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">While the bill may have many major reforms that are readily apparent, lawmakers also slipped hard-to-find earmarks into the bill. Many lawmakers, such as Shelby, are retiring and face few political repercussions for pushing a bill that contains many special interest carveouts and increases the deficit.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Shelby, as the longtime Senate Republican appropriations leader, had a particularly outsized influence in the drafting of the gargantuan legislation. Here are the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.appropriations.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/Division%20B%20-%20CJS%20Statement%20FY23.pdf\">earmarks<\/a> he put into the bill:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$13 million for the Abbeville Municipal Airport Runway Extension<\/li>\n<li>$26 million for the Tuscaloosa National Airport (TCL) Runway Extension<\/li>\n<li>$100 million for the Woosley Finnell Bridge<\/li>\n<li>$200 million for the Alabama State Port Authority Intermodal and Terminal Expansion<\/li>\n<li>$50 million for a Revolving Loan Fund to benefit the city of Mobile, Alabama<\/li>\n<li>$35 million for the Marion Military Institute<\/li>\n<li>$45 million for the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa<\/li>\n<li>$2.6 million for the Deepening Study for Tennessee\u2014Tombigbee Waterway (TTWW), AL and MS and Black Warrior and Tombigbee (BWT) Rivers; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers<\/li>\n<li>$6.7 million for the Alabama River Lakes, AL; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers<\/li>\n<li>$356 million for the Apalachicola, Chattahoochee and Flint Rivers, GA, AL &#038; FL; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.<\/li>\n<li>$7.25 million for the Black Warrior &#038; Tombigbee Rivers (BWT), AL; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers<\/li>\n<li>$7 million for the\u00a0Dauphin Island Bay, AL; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers<\/li>\n<li>$250,000 for the\u00a0Jim Woodruff Lock and Dam, Lake Seminole, FL, AL &#038; GA; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers<\/li>\n<li>$2.25 million for The University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, AL, for a permanent endowment fund to support the recruitment and retention of exceptional faculty in science and engineering.<\/li>\n<li>$35 million for the\u00a0Spring Hill College, AL, for facilities and equipment<\/li>\n<li>$76 million for the\u00a0UAB Heersink School of Medicine, AL, for facilities and equipment<\/li>\n<li>$50 million for the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, AL, for a permanent endowment fund to support the recruitment and retention of exceptional faculty in science and engineering.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The omnibus bill also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.appropriations.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/Division%20B%20-%20CJS%20Statement%20FY23.pdf\">designates<\/a> the FBI facilities at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, as the \u201cRichard Shelby Center for Innovation and Advanced Traning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">Breitbart News\u2019s Jacob Bliss <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/12\/13\/report-7500-earmarks-totaling-16-billion-negotiated-spending-bill\/\">reported<\/a> last week that there are over 7,500 earmarks totaling $16 billion lawmakers are trying to slip into the omnibus spending bill.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Last year, Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) and 18 other Senate Republicans called earmarks an \u201cinherently wasteful spending practice that is prone to serious abuse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, Shelby <a href=\"https:\/\/about.bgov.com\/news\/what-to-know-in-washington-senates-earmarked-billions-at-stake\/?utm_medium=bgov&#038;utm_source=twitter&#038;utm_campaign=B307A6D6-7AEF-11ED-93F3-CFE44F017A06\">said<\/a>, \u201cI\u2019ll be gone. I\u2019ll be cutting the grass and running errands for my wife. They\u2019d start all over. I wouldn\u2019t get anything,\u201d referring to what might happen if the omnibus bill is not passed during the current lame duck session.<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><i>Sean Moran is a policy reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter\u00a0<\/i><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SeanMoran3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\"><i>@SeanMoran3<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outgoing Senate Appropriations Committee Vice Chair Richard Shelby (R-AL) slipped $656 million worth of earmarks into the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill. 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