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Obey Throws Down the Gauntlet

In a letter where you can almost hear his frustration, Appropriations Chairman asked the members of the House to check off whether they...

Errata to TCS FY08 Earmarks Database

February 29, 2008 -- After consultation with Sen. Obama’s staff, TCS determined that a $7,227,500 project should be added to the database...

Taxpayers for Common Sense Releases New Earmark Database

Despite reform, new database finds that Congress hasn’t lost its appetite for pork Washington, D.C. – Congress has cut earmarks by 23...

TCS FY08 Earmark Database Release

TCS has rolled out our FY08 earmarks database. Now you can peruse and search 11,234 Congressional earmarks worth $14.8 billion. But wait,...

Golden Fleece Award

From surfing subsidies to the Great Wall of Bedford, Indiana, Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire’s Golden Fleece Award protected...

Earmark Reductions

We’ve heard a lot today about how much the Democrats have cut earmarks over previous year levels. First off, we want to congratulate them...

D-Day for Omnibus

In the wee hours this morning, the omnibus emerged from the bowels of the Capitol to be posted on the House Rules site: Speed readers...

Omnibus Creeps Forward and Cost of Earmarks

During this afternoon’s always entertaining colloquy between House Majority Leader Hoyer and Minority Whip Blunt on the House schedule,...

THUD Earmarks: Budget Battle Lines Drawn

TCS’s database of earmarks in the Transportation-Housing and Urban Development appropriations bill have landed with a THUD on our web...

House-Senate-Conference Earmarks for Labor-H Up

Now Congress is into full appropriations swing – that is until they take off for Thanksgiving. For your viewing pleasure...

Engineering Boondoggles

While Washington is wringing its hands about the automatic across-the-board budget cuts known as...