"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A $500,000 plan to save fish in Lake Champlain on the New York-Vermont border is included in a nearly $80 million emergency spending bill to fund the U.S.-led war in Iraq.
It's just one of several projects in the bill with no direct ties to the fighting, according to Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona.
McCain has compiled a list of more than two dozen provisions he calls objectionable because they were not requested by the Bush administration nor authorized by a congressional committee.
One of them is funding for a program to control an alien species called the sea lamprey, an eel-like parasite that is threatening to kill Lake Champlain's native trout and salmon.
"This funding was not requested by the administration, nor do sea lamprey[s] pose a clear and present danger to our national security," McCain said."
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