Do you REALLY think we can't cut the budget, just a little?
From the article:
In a Tuesday hearing on Capitol Hill, Republicans in the House Energy and Commerce Committee attacked the EPA for awarding grants to foreign countries under the Clean Air Act.
“There is nothing in the Clean Air Act directing the EPA to send tax dollars abroad, and the American people would not be pleased to know we are subsidizing foreign projects at a time when millions of Americans are out of work and the national debt just eclipsed $16 trillion,” House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton, a Michigan Republican, said in his opening statement.
According to Upton’s testimony, the EPA has doubled the money it hands out to foreign countries with nearly $12 million dollars in foreign grants given out in 2009. Almost $22 million was given in 2010 and a further $28 million was handed out in 2011.
“This is a disturbing trend that won’t stop unless we do something about it,” Upton remarked.
Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield of Kentucky said that $50 million in foreign grants were given in 2010 and 2011 alone.
“The American people sent us to Washington to clean things up and this is just one example of where we can all agree — that this money should be spent here at home rather than in China or Indonesia,” Whitfield said in his opening statement.
Some of the projects outlined by the committee include a grant $141,450 to China to study swine manure. Another $305,849 to the Science and Technology center in the Ukraine to retrain former Newly Independent States (NIS) weapons scientists.
Really? We're sending money to China to study pigshit? We have enough of that here, coming from our mainstream candidates.
http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/12/re...ants-to-china/
Republicans blast EPA taxpayer funded grants to China
