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The White House has targeted several contracting reform initiatives in the Senate defense authorization bill as veto-worthy, though its...
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...
This week we finished databasing earmarks in the Fiscal Year 2009 Senate bill that funds military construction and veterans’ affairs,...
Taxpayers for Common Sense has released the last four years of earmark data for Alaska to help create an understanding of how powerful...
Every year lawmakers submit tens of thousands of earmark requests to the Appropriations Committees. Only a percentage of these make it...
A chief of staff for a former House Appropriations Committee Chairman pleaded guilty in federal court yesterday to conspiring to defraud...
So it finally happened at 10:30 tonight. The DeMint earmark moratorium amendment to the budget resolution came to a vote.
When faced...
We’re still waiting to see what Speaker Pelosi does; word has been that it will be today.
Over in the Senate, it keeps getting more...
The Honorable Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Chairwoman
The Honorable Doc Hastings, Ranking Member
House Committee on Standards of Official...
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While Washington is wringing its hands about the automatic across-the-board budget cuts known as...
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