Senate Democrats unveiled a $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill yesterday. The bill is over 1,900 pages in length. Taxpayers for Common Sense found the bill contained roughly 6,700 Congressionally directed earmarks worth $8.3 billion.
Some of the earmarks identified by TCS staff can be viewed: HERE
FY 2011 Earmarks Request Database: 39,294 requests worth $130 Billion
(Disclaimer: The request database was made up of the individual lawmaker requests filed in March/April. It was gleaned from each members web site. Therefore if 4 lawmakers requested the same $1M earmark, it would show up as 4 requests worth $4M (total). The Omnibus database (link) comes from the final bill - so that scenario would show 1 earmark worth $1M. Both are valuable, related, but different data sets. TCS will work to marry the two data sets in the future.)
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Here are a couple clips from last nights news programs mentioning Taxpayers for Common Sense and our work:
CSPAN Washington Journal:
CBS News: Katie Couric
CNN: Anderson Cooper 360:
NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams:
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