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From today’s C-Span/CQ Update Conservative Groups Assail Omnibus

Conservative Groups Assail Omnibus, Warn Of Elections Rebellion
January 15, 2004

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Conservative groups slammed the Republican-written fiscal 2004 omnibus spending package today, urging the Senate to reject it and force a rewrite. And leaders of the groups, many of which are close GOP allies, warned that if Republicans don’t clamp down on spending growth, fiscal conservatives at the grass-roots level might stay home during the 2004 election. At a joint news conference, leaders of the American Conservative Union, the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste, Citizens for a Sound Economy, the Club for Growth, Coalitions for America and the National Taxpayers Union decried the discretionary spending increases and the thousands of earmarks in the final version of the seven-bill, $820 billion omnibus measure (HR 2673). “There’s only one thing to do, and that is to vote this turkey down and start over. It can’t be amended, it can’t be fixed on the margins — it has to be defeated,” said Paul M. Weyrich, national chairman of Coalitions for America.