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Ending the Earmark ATM: Despite Reforms, Earmarks Continue to Thrive

June 05, 2008 | Earmarks & Appropriations

Congress disclosed 11,234 earmarks worth $14.8 billion in this year’s spending bills. An additional $3.5 billion worth of earmarks were... Read More

Transportation Committee Discloses New Earmarks

The earmark disclosure debutantes are making their way to the floor today in the technical correction bill for SAFETEA-LU (H.R.... Read More

Taxpayers for Common Sense Releases New Earmark Database

February 14, 2008 | Earmarks & Appropriations

Despite reform, new database finds that Congress hasn’t lost its appetite for pork Washington, D.C. – Congress has cut earmarks by 23... Read More

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... Read More

Earmark Transparency One Step Closer

January 16, 2007 | Earmarks & Appropriations

Tonight, the Senate unanimously passed an amendment to the ethics bill to bring earmarks out of the shadowy corridors of the capitol and... Read More

Passing the Buck

October 01, 2000 | Natural Resources

How the Mining Industry Used Outdated Rules to Pass Environmental Cleanup Costs to Taxpayers... Read More

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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