REVEALED: Boehner’s High-Priced Lawyer Is Charging the American Taxpayer $520 Per Hour

[Snoutport]

JOBS JOBS JOBS= high priced lawyers + unemployment office workers. Any other jobs we know of?

ThinkProgress has obtained a copy of the contract House Republicans signed with Paul Clement, a former Solicitor General who earns $5 million a year, to defend the unconstitutional Defense of Marriage Act. Although Clement’s firm is charging less than the $900 an hour they typically bill for their top attorneys’ work, Clement will still leave the American people with a massive legal bill:

2. The General Counsel agrees to pay Contractor for all contractual services a sum not to exceed $500,000.00. …

MORE: http://thinkprogress.org/2011/04/19/clement-520-per-hour/

[Blue Owl]

1. Wow that could buy a lot of gin and cigarettes

n/t

[Snoutport]

11. I've been hearing some comments about drinking lately...is this well known?

[ellenfl]

2. eliminating that cost would surely cut the deficit. eom

[GodlessBiker]

3. Half a million dollars. For this. And to think what many capital defendants get ...

when it comes to legal services. This is totally ass backwards.

[nykym]

4. Should be on the top of

the list for budget cuts.

[gratuitous]

5. Take it out of the Speaker's office budget

That way, this tilting at constitutional windmills is paid for by the people who believe in it most fervently. Don Quixote didn't expect Sancho Panza or anyone else to ride at those windmills, and since this is Boehner's personal delusion, let him pay the freight.

[sinkingfeeling]

6. I still believe that the GOP should have to fund this. They're the only ones who voted to take it to

court.

[Snoutport]

12. I AGREE!!!

Can't I sue to keep my tax dollars from supporting this??!

[benld74]

7. Who's the General Counsel?

[EFerrari]

8. As usual, we're paying them to screw us.

What a racket.

[Snoutport]

10. My gay tax dollars at work!

[benld74]

9. From the Office of General Counsel Site - About US

The office is neutral as to issues of legislative policy


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