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| [h=1][/h]Congress Secretly Voted Themselves a Cromnibus Luxury Car Perk Erik Ose - HuffPo Posted: 12/16/2014 7:14 pm EST Updated: 8 minutes ago <snip> Over the weekend, the Cromnibus budget deal passed the Senate by a 56-40 margin after narrow approval by the House. The outcome is a win for big corporations and wealthy campaign donors, and a huge letdown for 99 percent of Americans, who once again have been shafted by back room negotiations and legislation written to favor the rich and powerful. There's a lot to make ordinary citizens sick about the Cromnibus. Republicans used the legislation as an end-of-year Trojan Horse to pass numerous stealth provisions that benefit the few at the expense of the many. Two of the worst are rolling back Dodd-Frank financial regulations so banks can once again gamble with money insured by taxpayers, which re-opens the door to more bank bailouts; and further gutting campaign finance reform by letting rich donors give up to $1.5 million a year to political parties, ten times the current limit. But the one Cromnibus secret that wasn't reported anywhere in the media until after the bill cleared both the House and Senate was that the budget deal grants members of Congress a lucrative new perk: the ability for each member to spend $1000 of our tax dollars per month on a luxury car allowance. 
Democratic Rep. Jared Polis of Colorado was the first to alert the public to this impending perk, when he posted about it on Facebook last Wednesday, the day after House Republican leaders filed the legislation. The relevant language was hidden on page 982 of the 1,603-page bill: <snip> More: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/erik-..._6330644.html?utm_hp_ref=business&ir=Business |
