Thread: Bridge To Nowhere: Fact Or Fiction
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Old 01-06-2006, 03:17 PM   #9 (permalink)
Steven M
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What I meant was that Coburn and Flake did not take advantage of the add-ons they were offered. I'm not saying that they didn't receive any money from the bill itself.

I do agree with sgtdmski that they should have looked closer before criticizing the "bridge to nowhere."
Oh, well I did not know that they were offered add-ons, nor did I know that the "bridge to nowhere" was one of these add-ons.

What kind of add-ons were they offered?
I read that they were offered $14 million for their districts to spend however they wanted as long as they related it to transportation somehow. I may be wrong about these being add-ons to the bill, because I just saw that they are funds from within the bill that are earmarked for a certain project, not really additions to the actual bill.
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