John McCain's East River Tour
Posted by Matt Ortega on May 8, 2008 at 06:45 PM
John McCain is taking a ferry ride down the East River from New York City to Highland, New Jersey tomorrow. Sounds like a great photo op, no?
Turns out, McCain's tour will pass a series of landmarks he opposed funding for or even voted against.
Bon voyage, Senator McCain!
Details below:
EAST RIVER
2006 $80,000 In The FY2006 Energy/Water Appropriations Bill: East Rivers Seawalls (Corps of Engineers: General Investigations) [Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW.org) Pigbooks, FY95-FY07]
2005 $275,000 In The FY2005 Energy/Water Appropriations Bill: East River seawalls (Corps of Engineers: General Investigations) [Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW.org) Pigbooks, FY95-FY07]
2004 $100,000 In The FY2004 Energy/Water Appropriations Bill: East River Seawall, Queens County (Corps of Engineers - General Investigations) [Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW.org) Pigbooks, FY95-FY07]
2003 $100,000 In The FY2003 Energy/Water Appropriations Bill: East River Seawall, Queens County (Corps of Engineers: General Investigations) [Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW.org) Pigbooks, FY95-FY07]
McCain Voted Against Forcing Corporate Polluters To Pay For Clean-Up. McCain voted against forcing corporate polluters to pay for the clean-up of the messes they make by reinstating the original superfund taxes, increasing aggregate revenues from Superfund tax from $1.081 billion in FY 2004 to $1.833 billion in 2013; and provides $15.6 billion in deficit reduction in 2004-2013... [2003 Senate Vote #97, 3/25/2003]
McCain Voted Against Encouraging The EPA To Clean Up Rivers Contaminated By Pesticides, Metals, And Other Toxins. McCain voted to kill an amendment expressing a sense of Congress that the EPA should move swiftly to clean up river and ocean sites around nation that have been contaminated with DDT, PCBs, dioxins, metals and other toxic chemicals in order to protect public health, safety, and environment. [2000 Senate Vote #271, 10/12/2000]
McCain Voted Against $10 Billion In Funding For State Clean Water Grants. In 1995, McCain voted against an amendment to the Fiscal Year 1996 Budget Resolution (SCR 13) that would have allowed $10.8 billion to provide Clean Water Grants to state and local governments to administer Federal water infrastructure program grants. [1995 Senate Vote #211, 5/25/1995]
WILLIAMSBURG BRIDGE
2006 $250,000 In The FY2006 Transportation Appropriations Bill: Williamsburg Bridge Plaza improvement, Brooklyn (Federal Aviation Administration) [Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW.org) Pigbooks, FY95-FY07]
MANHATTAN BRIDGE
2003 $850,000 In The FY2003 Transportation Appropriations Bill: Manhattan Bridge Physical Assessment (Surface Transportation Projects - Secretary of Transportation) [Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW.org) Pigbooks, FY95-FY07]
BROOKLYN BRIDGE
2008 $282,000 In The FY2008 Commerce/State/Justice Appropriations Bill: Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy at-risk youth programs (Discretionary Grants - Juvenile Justice Programs) [Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW.org) Pigbooks, FY95-FY07]
2002 $1,000,000 In The FY2002 Transportation Appropriations Bill: Brooklyn Bridge Park development corporation study (Transportation & Community & System Prevention Program - Federal Highway Administration) [Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW.org) Pigbooks, FY95-FY07]
LOWER MANHATTAN
***McCain Voted Against The Creation Of A Fund To Implement 9-11 Commission Recommendations In Favor Of Bush Tax Cuts. McCain voted against an amendment establishing a "Homeland Security and Neighborhood Safety Trust Fund" within U.S. Treasury. The amendment would create a homeland security trust fund to implement all 41 recommendations of the Sept. 11 commission. It would be offset by eliminating certain tax breaks for individuals with annual incomes of more than $1 million. [2006 Senate Vote #244, 9/13/2006]
ELLIS ISLAND/STATUE OF LIBERTY
2002 $600,000 In The FY2002 Interior Appropriations Bill: Statue of Liberty [Ellis Island seawall repair planning] (Construction - National Park Service) [Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW.org) Pigbooks, FY95-FY07]
2001 $2,340,000 In The FY2001 Interior Appropriations Bill: Statue of Liberty National Memorial and Ellis Island [NJ, NY] [stabilize historic Ellis Island buildings] (National Park Service - Construction) [Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW.org) Pigbooks, FY95-FY07]
1999 $2,000,000 In The FY1999 Interior Appropriations Bill: Ellis Island [NJ, NY] [stabilization] (National Park Service - Construction) [Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW.org) Pigbooks, FY95-FY07]
***PORTS OF NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY
McCain Knows The US Has Work To Do In Port Security... “Well, one of our participants just here said ‘port security’ and we obviously have a lot of work to do here and all across America in every one of our ports.” [CNN Live Feed (Houston, TX), 3/4/08]
...But Called the Scrutiny of the Ports Deal “Hysteria.” McCain, speaking to ABC News on February 26, 2006, said that national security concerns surrounding the proposed port sale to Dubai should not be a priority, and he commented that his colleagues had reached a unwarranted level of “near hysteria” about the sale. McCain said, “I think that our priorities this week have been misplaced… We've got some very, very big issues that I think are perhaps more important than whether a country that's freer than China is should have control of some of our terminals.” McCain added, “I think that the near hysteria about this is not warranted particularly in light of the other major crises that we are facing throughout the world.” [ABC News, 2/26/05]
And McCain Has Repeatedly Voted Against Increasing Port Security.
***McCain Voted Against Legislation Allocating $4.1 Billion To Enhance Homeland Security. McCain voted against considering legislation to provide resources and tools needed to develop policies to "Real Security" for Americans. The legislation would appropriate $4.1 billion to implement 9/11 Commission recommendations to provide adequate resources for first responders, improve intelligence oversight, strengthen Congressional oversight of homeland security, and strengthen public diplomacy and improve tracking of nuclear weapons material. [2006 Senate Vote #243, 9/13/2006]
***McCain Voted Against $965 Million For Port Inspectors, Security Grants, And New Technologies. McCain voted against an amendment to provide $965 million for port security and assumes that $100 million will be used for 400 additional inspectors, $600 million for the Port Security Grants program, $100 million for research and development, $105 million for dual technologies, $50 million for new technologies in developing countries, and $10 million for new technologies integration; provides $965 million for debt reduction; and offsets by closing corporate tax loopholes. [2006 Senate Vote #47, 3/15/2006]
McCain Voted Against Providing Resources For Transportation Security, And Including $45 Million For Devices To Detect Explosives And $70 Million For Port Security Technologies. McCain voted against an amendment to increase spending on research and development on transportation security to $200 million. Of that amount, $45 million would be earmarked for development of explosive detection devices and $70 million would be earmarked for grants awarded by the secretary of Homeland Security to private and public entities for the development of port security technologies. [2003 Senate Vote #295, 7/23/2003]
SANDY HOOK FERRY
2005 $400,000 In The FY2005 Transportation Appropriations Bill: National Park Service Sandy Hook (Ferry Boats and Ferry Terminal Facilities - Federal Highway Administration) [Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW.org) Pigbooks, FY95-FY07]
2002 $1,000,000 In The FY2002 Transportation Appropriations Bill: Sandy Hook, ferry terminal (Ferry Boats and Facilities - Federal Highway Administration) [Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW.org) Pigbooks, FY95-FY07]
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