WASHINGTON — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday there were “bigger things to object to” in the bill that reopened the government than the $2.1 billion for the so-called “Kentucky Kickback” dam project, as reporters pressed her at length on the congressional practice of inserting special interest provisions into appropriations bills.
A reporter asked Pelosi about criticism over several add-ons in the continuing resolution Congress passed Wednesday night, and Pelosi responded that many of her members have “some of the same questions” about certain elements of the bill that was negotiated in the Senate.
“Now, we in the House are always suspicious of the Senate when they want to go first, and what are they doing over there,” Pelosi said.
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