Robert D. Novak: GOP continues log-rolling for pork
Publication: Union Leader
Robert Novak
June 20, 2006
JEFF FLAKE, a 44-year-old third-term Republican congressman from Mesa, Ariz., last Wednesday burnished his credentials as “Miss Uncongeniality” in the House of Representatives. He introduced 12 amendments to the Transportation-Treasury-HUD appropriations bill removing earmarks of individual House members, including two by chief appropriator Jerry Lewis. All of Flake’s efforts failed.
