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House Interior Appropriations Initiation Analysis and Database

For your weekend reading pleasure, please find the link below to TCS's initial analysis of the House FY08 Interior Appropriations bill....

House Leg Branch & State/Foreign Ops

Hmmm. What do the FY08 Legislative Branch (TCS Analysis of House Legislative Branch Appropriations Bill) and FY08 State and Foreign...

TCS Releases Analysis of Senate MilCon Earmarks

As promised TCS is churning through the appropriations bills. We've just completed our analysis of the Senate MilCon/VA appropriations...

Tentative Deal to Put Earmarks Back in House Spending Bills

An AP story (http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-06-13-congress-spending_N.htm) seems to indicate there has been a step back from...

Appropriations Underway

The House has taken up the rule governing the debate on the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations bill , (TCS ANALYSIS OF THE...

50 Defense Earmarks Not Disclosed by House Defense Committe

 Posted by Laura Peterson, June 8, 2007   Additional Information...

Earmark Protection Program

Okay, I have to admit that I thought that Chairman Obey's bluster about not including earmarks was going fall by the wayside during the...

50 Defense Earmarks Not Disclosed by House Defense Committe

When the House of Representatives passed new rules just a few days into the new Congress requiring lawmakers to disclose the earmarks...

OMB Tracking FY08 Earmarks

OMB Director Portman sent a memo to Heads of Departments and Agencies today. He is directing them to track earmarks in the FY08 spending...

House Armed Services Committee Releases Defense Authorization Earmarks

posted by Laura Peterson, May 23, 2007 With little fanfare, defense earmarks made their public debut in the House Armed Services Committee...

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...