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Coal-to-Liquid Earmarks DOD Appropriations

September 23, 2008 | Energy

Today the House passed a Continuing Resolution and a minibus that included the final FY09 Defense spending bill, which had 6 earmarks for... Read More

2,321 Earmarks worth $6.6 Billion in Minibus Legislation

September 23, 2008 | Budget & Tax , Earmarks & Appropriations

After a bit of speed reading, TCS staff came up with earmark totals for the CR/Def/DHS/MilCon bill that was released 13 hours ago. These... Read More

Sample of Earmarks in the FY09 Minibus

September 23, 2008 | Earmarks & Appropriations

It’s slow going looking through the earmarks, but here’s a few – some are repeat customers and some are rookie earmarks. More to... Read More

House Releases Homeland Security Earmark Letters

The House Appropriations Committee has just released the earmark request letters for the 2009 Department of Homeland Security... Read More

FY2009 Appropriations Bills: TCS Analyses and Earmark Databases

The following are links to TCS's analysis and database for each of the FY09 appropriations bills. (Note: With the exception of House... Read More

Senate Adds $5.2 Billion in Earmarks to Defense Authorization Bill

The Senate is expected to pass the 2009 Defense Authorization Bill sometime tonight, but to do so they will have to resolve a raucous... Read More

Sen. Obama (D-IL) Requested $860.6 million in earmarks FY2006-FY2008

September 11, 2008 | Earmarks & Appropriations

Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) requested 326 projects worth $860.6 million between FY2006 and FY2008, according to a Taxpayers for Common Sense... Read More

Senate Energy and Water Earmark Total Nearly Identical to Last Year

The Senate Appropriations Committee’s FY2009 Energy and Water appropriations bill contains 1,480 earmarks worth $3.50 billion (click here... Read More

Nearly $200 million in Agriculture Earmarks in Senate Bill

The Senate Appropriations Committee included 307 earmarks worth about $197.2 million in the Fiscal Year 2009 Agriculture Appropriations... Read More

House Earmarks $721 Million in Military Construction Appropriations Bill

The House of Representative today passed a bill to fund Military Construction and Veterans Affairs programs in fiscal year 2009 contains... 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