<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/8ac9a23f-54cd-4d3b-b375-c57ca46dafd0/3BE03224-34DF-4786-ADFF-8315C40CB3F2/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.counterpunch.org/murtha07132006.html" href="http://www.counterpunch.org/murtha07132006.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.counterpunch.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.counterpunch.org/murtha07132006.html"><P><FONT size="-1" face="Verdana" color="#990000"> ENVIRONMENT/INFRASTRUCTURE</FONT></p> <BLOCKQUOTE> <P><FONT size="-1" face="Verdana"> $300 million President's cut to EPA budget in FY 2007 (1 day, 3 hours in Iraq)</FONT></p> <P><FONT size="-1" face="Verdana"> $253 billion/30 years Clean up contaminated sites in US (Up to 350,000 contaminated sites will require cleanup over the next 30 years according to a report released by the EPA.) (2 years in Iraq)</FONT></p> <P><FONT size="-1" face="Verdana"> $9.11 billion National Park Service maintenance backlog (1 month, 10 days in Iraq)</FONT></p> <P><FONT size="-1" face="Verdana"> $6 billion Forest Service maintenance backlog (3 weeks in Iraq)</FONT></p> <P><FONT size="-1" face="Verdana"> $2 billion Fish and Wildlife Service maintenance backlog (2 weeks in Iraq)</FONT></p> <P><FONT size="-1" face="Verdana"> $47.2 billion/yr Miscellaneous user fees throughout government imposed by President's budget on taxpayers (6 months in Iraq)</FONT></p> <P><FONT size="-1" face="Verdana"> $1.7 billion/yr Grants to states cut in 2007 budget (1 week in Iraq)</FONT></p> <P><FONT size="-1" face="Verdana"> $15 million/yr Double the Save America's Treasures program (cut in half from last year's budget) (1.3 hours in Iraq)</FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3BE03224-34DF-4786-ADFF-8315C40CB3F2/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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