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Now Congress is into full appropriations swing – that is until they take off for Thanksgiving. For your viewing pleasure (LABOR-HHS-EDUCATION SPENDING BILL VETO: THE PROOF IS IN THE PORK) we have combined the House, Senate and Conference earmarks into one database. There you will find the 2,246 earmarks worth 1.055 billion that were in the Labor-HHS spending bill the President vetoed earlier this week. What you will find is that some earmarks got fatter for no apparent reason. Like why did the $100,000 earmark for AltaMed Health Services Corporation construction and equipment sponsored by Sen. Boxer in the Senate bill grow to $275,000 in conference? And why did Rep. Roybal-Allard get her name added as an earmark sponsor when there was no House earmark? While some grew like this earmark, many others were shaved a bit, and there were a lot of instances of piggy-backing on other members earmarks. Either Senators jumping on the bandwagon of House earmarks or vice-versa.
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