To prohibit funding for congressional earmarks for wasteful and parochial pork projects.

SA 683. Mr. COBURN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill H.R. 146, to establish a battlefield acquisition grant
program for the acquisition and protection of nationally significant
battlefields and associated sites of the Revolutionary War and the War
of 1812, and for other purposes; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. ___. PROHIBITION ON FUNDING FOR CONGRESSIONAL EARMARKS
FOR WASTEFUL AND PAROCHIAL PORK PROJECTS.

Sections 7203, 7404, 13006, 10001 through 10011, and
12003(a)(3) shall have no effect and none of the funds
authorized by this Act may be spent on a special resource
study of Estate Grange and other sites and resources
associated with Alexander Hamilton's life on St. Croix in the
United States Virgin Islands,

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a celebration of the 450th anniversary of St. Augustine,
Florida, and its Commemoration Commission, the National
Tropical Botanical Garden and the operation and maintenance
of gardens in Hawaii and Florida, and a water project in
California to restore salmon populations in the San Joaquin
River or the creation of a new ocean exploration program to
conduct scientific voyages to locate, define and document
shipwrecks and submerged sites.
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