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As Mayor of Wasilla between 1996-2002, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) helped get nearly $27 million in earmarked federal funding. Under her...
During this election year, lawmakers are showing slight restraint in writing the earmarks in the FY 2009 spending bills, according to an...
New documents show that Rep Don Young (R-AK) has raised $54,000 for his legal defense fund. This money was raised mainly from Alaskan...
Taxpayers for Common Sense has released the last four years of earmark data for Alaska to help create an understanding of how powerful...
Recently it was brought to our attention that Alaskans for Don Young has been running radio ads claiming that Taxpayers for Common Sense...
Former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-CA), currently in the middle of an 8-year prison sentence for taking $2.4 million in bribes from...
Every year lawmakers submit tens of thousands of earmark requests to the Appropriations Committees. Only a percentage of these make it...
In a tussle worthy of a schoolyard, the spending bosses in the House of Representatives have decided to hang up their cleats and go home....
The House appropriations committee had a melt down today.
After a bit of posturing, it appeared they were going to get down to business...
The $40 billion Homeland Security spending bill marked up by the House Appropriations Committee yesterday is $2.3 billion over the...
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While Washington is wringing its hands about the automatic across-the-board budget cuts known as...
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