It's rare that a single vote could decimate an entire segment of America's nonprofit sector and place millions of children and families in jeopardy, but that's exactly what's at stake in Monday's vote in the U.S. Senate on Amendment 4697.
The amendment, proposed by Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) as a rider to the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510), and would ban all congressionally directed spending (earmarks) for the next three years. The savings would be trivial -- $16 billion, or one-half of one percent of the $3.5 trillion federal budget -- but the impact would be catastrophic for many of the national programs earmarks support. (Earl Martin Phalen at The Huffington Post)
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