The barnacles attached to the budget deal

Ezra Klein wrote about The barnacles attached to the budget deal "I’ve been looking for a full list of the policy riders Republicans attached to their spending bill and it turns out OMB Watch has put one together. There’s some very strange stuff in there: One prohibits the government from funding a database of consumer complaints about financial products. Another blocks the government from enforcing clean-water standards in Florida. A third stops the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives from collecting information ‘on multiple sales of rifles or shotguns to the same person.’ For the record, if someone is stocking up on deadly weaponry, that’s the sort of thing I’d like law-enforcement officials to know. But, as Brian Beutler reports, there are really two riders standing between John Boehner, Harry Reid and a deal: one that prohibits the government from funding Planned Parenthood and one that prohibits the EPA from regulating carbon (actually, both go a bit further than that, but those are their main purposes). "

The OMB Watch pdf is 4 pages and is interesting. It's a long list of "prohibit funds for" various things Republicans hate. Things that affect the environment are the longest list but there are other things. "Prohibits transferring detainees from Guantanamo Bay." is apparently in two sequential sections of the bill and in the next one is "Prohibits constructing facilities to house detainees in Guantanamo Bay." so that works well. It's also against job training, "Prohibits funding for competitions for new Job Corps centers."

Apparently they're also against school lunches. "Prohibits funding for carrying out section 19 of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act." which I think is a Farm-to-School program to "improve access to local foods in schools." Now maybe the argument is we can't afford this? but is this so big a deal to bring it up specifically?

Though my favorite (and I know nothing about it) is "Prohibits funds to provide nonrecourse marketing assistance loans to mohair farmers."