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Water bill moving in U.S. Senate ‘like a greased pig’

April 09, 2013 | St. Louis-Post Dispatch | Earmarks & Appropriations , Transportation & Infrastructure

WASHINGTON • The porcine reference comes from Steve Ellis, of Taxpayers for Common Sense, an advocacy group that pays special attention when... Read More

Morning Transportation

April 08, 2013 | POLITICO | Transportation & Infrastructure

LAST-MINUTE REPRIEVE: Only two days before the FAA was set to end funding for 24 contract towers — the first of three batches that included... Read More

TVA, B&W poised to put small modular reactors to the test

April 08, 2013 | Knoxville News Sentinel | Energy

TVA is teaming with Babcock & Wilcox on a project that may produce the nation’s first operational small modular reactor. The potential of... Read More

Price Increases for U.S. Military Gear Dwarf Most Nations’ Defense Budgets

April 05, 2013 | WIRED | National Security

Here’s an example of what Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel was talking about in his Wednesday speech on reforming the way the Pentagon buys... Read More

Congressional spending requests less transparent, critics say

April 03, 2013 | Federal Times | Earmarks & Appropriations

In the more than two years since earmarks were banned to make congressional spending more transparent, lawmakers have fallen back on an... Read More

West Virginia Republican Files Secret Spending Requests

April 02, 2013 | Think Progress | Earmarks & Appropriations

Rep. Shelley Moore Capito’s (R-WV) first several terms in Congress could best be described as “free-spending” — obtaining tens of millions... Read More

When Does ‘Appropriator’ Become a Dirty Word? Perhaps in Georgia’s GOP Primary

April 01, 2013 | Roll Call | Earmarks & Appropriations

Candidates in the Georgia Republican Senate primary are jostling for the furthest right starting block in what’s likely to be a crowded... Read More

A powerful voice pays off for Maryland during federal budget cuts

April 01, 2013 | Reuters | Earmarks & Appropriations

(Reuters) - Many members of Congress looked pretty helpless this week as they fought to save cherished programs in their states from... Read More

Tiny US airports refuel annually on federal pork

April 01, 2013 | The Washington Post | Transportation & Infrastructure

ARDMORE, Okla. -- Along a country road in southern Oklahoma, there is a place that doesn't make sense. It is an airport without... Read More

Bypassing Sense

April 01, 2013 | Style Weekly | Transportation & Infrastructure

With $16.4 trillion in U.S. debt and the possible sequester as daily topics in America, our state is on the verge of building a $244 million... Read More

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September 13, 2013

Syria: Excuse 535 To Not Cut the Deficit

Volume XVIII No. 37 Possible action in Syria has become the most recent excuse du jour for Pentagon boosters... Read More