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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...

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...

Syria: Excuse 535 To Not Cut the Deficit

Volume XVIII No. 37 Possible action in Syria has become the most recent excuse du jour for Pentagon boosters...