The House is on record about earmarks, and it is not pretty. Andy Roth at the Club for Growth has the votes, all 19 of them. Louise Slaughter, D-NY 28, voted to kill two of them and to support the spending of seven of them. She did not vote on four of them.

First of all, I thought we paid her to vote. Odds are she would have voted wrong, to support the pork, but not voting is just plain wrong by itself. Here are the votes.

House Vote 190 - Dairy education in Iowa ($229,000)

House Vote 191 - Hydroponic tomato production in Ohio ($180,000)

House Vote 192 - National Grape and Wine Initiative ($100,000)

House Vote 204 - Virginia Science Museum ($250,000)

House Vote 205 - Juniata Locomotive Demonstration ($1,000,000)

House Vote 277 - Swimming pool in Banning, CA ($500,000)

House Vote 278 - “Facilities” in Weirton, West Virginia ($100,000)

House Vote 279 - Multipurpose facility in Yucaipa, California ($500,000)

House Vote 280 - Strand Theater Arts Center in Plattsburgh, New York ($250,000)

House Vote 298 - Mystic Aquarium in New London, Conn. ($1,000,000)

House Vote 299 - The Jason Foundation in Ashburn, VA ($1,000,000)

House Vote 302 - Northwest Manufacturing Initiative ($2,500,000)

House Vote 303 - Lewis Center for Education Research ($4,000,000)

House Vote 304 - Leonard Wood Research Institute ($20,000,000)

House Vote 334 - Arthur Avenue Retail Market ($150,000)

House Vote 335 - Bronx Council for the Arts in Bronx, N.Y. ($300,000)

House Vote 338 - Tourism Development Association in Kentucky ($1,000,000)

Louise voted to kill the two items in bold. The Mystic Aquarium vote was a poke in the eye to Joe Lieberman, I suspect. I don’t understand the vote against the Jason Foundation. It must have to do with its sponsor, because it’s a foundation to prevent teen suicide. Louise is in favor of teen suicide?

The last four, in italics, were the ones she missed out on.

Ask yourself this question. Which of these pork earmarks would you go up to Congresswoman Slaughter and say: “Louise, I want you to vote for this. Spend my money on this.”? Think about it. Heck, the two that even come close for me are the two she voted to kill.

The truth is that none of these items belong in a category called Funded by the Federal Government. They should be funded, maybe, by state and local governments, or by private donations. These aren’t national defense, anti-crime or any other topic that my money and your money should be spent on by Louise Slaughter and her porker friends.

BTW. John “Porkpie” Mutha voted to fund every single one of these projects.