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Analysis of Chairman Murthaﾒs Donors

Analysis of Chairman Murtha’s Donors.pdf

Senate Appropriations Earmark Transparency Announcement

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

OMB FY05 Earmark Database Live

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

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

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

When an Earmark Isnﾒt an Earmark

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

Taxpayers for Common Sense Statement on the Emergency Spending Bill

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

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...

Earmark Rumblings

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...

TCS FY07 Defense Earmarks Database Available

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

FY07 Earmark Instructions to Agencies

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

Engineering Boondoggles

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