http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/feb/20/in-house-debate-pet-projects-euthanized/
After more than 100 votes in four days, the lesson from last week’s spending debate in the House is that nobody’s pet projects are safe anymore.
House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, watched lawmakers vote to defund a military project that pumps millions of dollars into his district, and former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, saw her colleagues vote to end federal funding for a park in her San Francisco congressional district.
(Article does continue . . . but, will the it make it
in the senate? Zim.)

Mad Poet Strikes Again.