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Earmarks Benefiting ProLogic, Inc. and BAE Systems

Dear Representatives Obey and Lewis, and Senators Byrd and Cochran: As two organizations which have been critical of earmark abuses, we...

TCS Requests Ethics Investigation of Coconut Road Earmark

The Honorable Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Chairwoman The Honorable Doc Hastings, Ranking Member House Committee on Standards of Official...

Senate Guts Earmark Transparency Rules

TCS has just discovered that Senate leadership gutted earmark transparency rules that had initially passed the Senate 98-0. S. 1, the...

Rep. Don Young’s Coconut Rd. Earmark Rejected

You may have heard about the $10 million earmark for a Florida highway interchange that Rep. Don Young (R-AK) included the 2005 highway...

TCS Releases list of earmarks in FY 08 Senate Financial Services Appropriations Bill

Request a complete list of Senate Financial Services Earmarks (mailto: info@taxpaye.net) Washington, D.C. - The FY 2008 Senate Financial...

Final Week Flurry ﾖ Defense & AG Earmarks and More

For your summer reading pleasure we have posted all the earmarks in the House FY08 Defense and Agriculture spending bills. And I can assure...

Senate Already Watering Down Earmark Disclosure Rules

Congress is racing the clock to pass earmark and ethics reform before they skip town for a month long vacation. For a bill that’s supposed...

Commerce of Earmarks ﾖ CJS Spending Bill

To help you follow the CJS debate, TCS has released our database (MORE THAN 1100 EARMARKS IN HOUSE COMMERCE-JUSTICE-SCIENCE SPENDING BILL)...

House Transportation Spending Bill: The Road to Political Pork

Washington, D.C. - The House FY08 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development and Related Agencies Appropriations bill contains more...

Paving the Way for Pork ﾖ THUD Earmarks

TCS has plowed through the more than 1,400 earmarks worth nearly $2.2 billion in the aptly named THUD spending bill. Congress contributed...

Engineering Boondoggles

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