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Analysis of Chairman Murthaメs Donors

April 24, 2007 | Earmarks & Appropriations

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Senate Appropriations Earmark Transparency Announcement

April 16, 2007 | Earmarks & Appropriations

Senate Appropriations Chairman Byrd (D-WV) announced earlier today that the Appropriations Committee will be disclosing earmarks beginning... Read More

OMB FY05 Earmark Database Live

April 03, 2007 | Earmarks & Appropriations

Today, OMB updated their new online earmark database. If you recall, OMB's database went live a few weeks ago with incomplete data and... Read More

Taxpayers for Common Sense Statement on House Passage of Emergency Spending Bill

March 22, 2007 | Earmarks & Appropriations

Today, the House passed an emergency spending bill that weighed in $21 billion heavier than President’s $103 billion proposal. House... Read More

When an Earmark Isnメt an Earmark

March 22, 2007 | Earmarks & Appropriations

Lawmakers have already exploited a loophole in the new transparency rules that appear to allow 'immaculate conception' earmarks. Let me... Read More

Taxpayers for Common Sense Statement on the Emergency Spending Bill

March 20, 2007 | Earmarks & Appropriations

At $20 billion more than the President’s proposal, Congress’s $124 billion emergency spending bill is giving taxpayers an acute case of... Read More

Emergencies and Earmarks - Supplemental

I'm hearing that the Senate supplemental is weighing in at $121B, slightly slimmer than the House's $124B, although the Ag Emergency... Read More

Earmark Rumblings

March 11, 2007 | Earmarks & Appropriations

Today was to be the day of earmark reckoning. At 3 PM, the Office of Management and Budget was supposed to post on the internet a database... Read More

TCS FY07 Defense Earmarks Database Available

February 28, 2007 | Budget & Tax , Earmarks & Appropriations

The results are in! Taxpayers for Common Sense analysis of the FY07 Defense spending bill found 2,646 earmarks worth $10.5B. This compares... Read More

FY07 Earmark Instructions to Agencies

February 15, 2007 | Budget & Tax , Earmarks & Appropriations

OMB just sent out a memo to Department Heads and Federal Agencies directing them how to deal with the FY07 spending bill (which the... Read More

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Weekly Wastebasket

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February 15, 2013

Engineering Boondoggles

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