Priorities 1

The Bush administration spent more than $1.6 billion over a 30-month period on public relations and advertising contracts to promote its policies and programs, according to a report released yesterday by the nonpartisan investigative arm of Congress.

By way of comparison, Bush's much-heralded Advanced Energy Initiative pledges a total of $996 million to alternative energy research.

David Roberts is staff writer for Grist. You can follow his Twitter feed at twitter.com/drgrist.

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  1. boa Posted 11:59 pm
    08 Mar 2006

    responseSepnding over 1.6 billion on maintaining public relations and advertising contracts just seems far too much as compared to the mere 996 million on the research. Seriously, he needs to get the pirority right. Environment matters couldnt wait and would be deteriorating each day. Hopefully, the 996 million is enough if he couldnt do anything more.

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