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- Getting Fat On Pork
- A new report from Citizens Against Government Waste shows that Washington's pork-barrel spending has topped $19.6 billion. Sharyl Attkisson reports.
- Videos 2009-04-14
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- Earmark Reform
- Update - The Portland Press Herald of Maine has an excellent article describing many of the issues revolving around earmarks. They lay out how some of the defense earmarks gained by the local Congressman and Senators have greatly benefited the local economy and companies. The issues though are...
- Blog posts 2009-04-22
- Speaker Hastert, Majority Leader Boehner Praise House Action on Lobbying & Earmark Reforms
- WASHINGTON, April 5 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Speaker of the House J. Dennis Hastert (R-IL) and House Majority Leader John Boehner (R- OH) praised House action on broad lobbying and earmark reforms today and issued the following statement: WASHINGTON, April 5 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Speaker of the House J. Dennis Hastert...
- Research articles 2006-04-05
- Americans for Prosperity Urges Senate to Reject $700 Million Earmark That Would Destroy Newly Rebuilt, Functioning Railroad
- WASHINGTON, April 19 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The free-market grassroots group Americans for Prosperity AFP today sent letters to every U.S. Senator, calling on them to remove a $700 million earmark from a pending Iraq/Katrina emergency appropriations bill thWASHINGTON, April 19 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The free-market grassroots group Americans for Prosperity...
- Research articles 2006-04-19
- Earmark cutoff hits Illinois hard; Reform pressures shut congressional spigot for local projects.(News)
- Byline: PAUL MERRION WASHINGTON-Under growing pressure for budget reform, Congress has killed plans to earmark at least half-a-billion dollars in federal money this year for hundreds of Illinois municipalities, hospitals, schools, airports, non-pr Byline: PAUL MERRION WASHINGTON-Under growing pressure for...
- Research articles 2007-01-01
- Bills earmark more spectrum for unlicensed technologies. (News).
- WASHINGTON-Rep. Mike Honda (D-Calif.) today plans to announce he will offer companion legislation mirroring a bipartisan Senate bill that could be introduced as early as this week to earmark additional spectrum for i-Fi and other emerging unlicense WASHINGTON-Rep. Mike Honda (D-Calif.) today plans to...
- Research articles 2003-01-13
- USDA will earmark $4.7 million for emerging food-safety issues.
- USDA will earmark $4.7 million for emerging food-safety issues. Money will be used to conduct risk assessments of various types of food, including prepared foods and domestic and imported fruits and vegetables. USDA will earmark $4.7 million for emerging food-safety issues. Money will...
- Research articles 1999-04-09
- Americans for Prosperity Unveils www.RailroadToNowhere.com;Grassroots Website Aims to Derail Controversial $700M Earmark
- WASHINGTON, April 20 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The free-market grassroots group Americans for Prosperity AFP today unveiled http:// www.RailroadToNowhere.com -- a comprehensive website featuring updated news, photos and other information about a controversial $700 million earmark in pending Senate "emergency" spending legislation. The proposed earmark would use federal taxpayer dollars...
- Research articles 2006-04-20
- CAGW Calls for Immediate Earmark Reform
- WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Citizens Against Government Waste CAGW today encouraged the House to follow through on its promise to reform earmarks internally, while renewing calls for earmark reform legislation. During the August recess, Republican House Leaders released a joint statement outlining their plan to "immediately adopt and...
- Research articles 2006-09-13
- Statement of Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer on House Earmark Rules
- WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Following is a statement of Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer on House earmark rules: The earmark rules changes, will not fool the American people into ignoring the irresponsible failure by the House to address the worst House corruption scandals in decades. At the core...
- Research articles 2006-09-14
- CAGW Unveils FY 2009 Earmark Request Database
- WASHINGTON -- Citizens Against Government Waste CAGW, in conjunction with the Sunlight Foundation and Taxpayers for Common Sense TCS, today announced a campaign to determine which members of Congress are truly committed to making this year's appropriations process as transparent as possible by allowing their constituents and all taxpayers to...
- Research articles 2008-06-23
- Americans for Prosperity's 'Ending Earmarks Express' Visits Northrop Grumman Skyscraper, Calls for Removal of $500M Earmark
- ARLINGTON, Va., May 1 /U.S. Newswire/ -- With the shiny silver Northrop Grumman skyscraper in the background, Americans for Prosperity's Ending Earmarks Express today visited Arlington, Va., to call for the U.S. Senate to remove a $500 million earmark foARLINGTON, Va., May 1 /U.S. Newswire/ -- With the...
- Research articles 2006-05-01
- Congress's "Earmark Reforms" Are Hoax and Mirrors; CAGW Irate Over Democratic Leadership's Cynical Shell Game at Taxpayers' Expense
- WASHINGTON -- Citizens Against Government Waste CAGW today blasted the Senate leadership for its recent furtive attempts to roll back and undermine the earmark transparency and accountability provisions of S. 1, the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007, which was signed into law two weeks ago. Majority Leader...
- Research articles 2007-09-28
- Pork-Barreling Republicans Fighting Earmark Reform
- Insatiable Appropriators Pose Election Risk Given the anger of the Republican base over the explosion in federal spending and earmarks during the Bush Presidency, one would think that earmark reform would be a no-brainer for the GOP majority in Congress. Think again. Determined appropriators are fighting tooth and...
- Research articles 2006-04-24
- Weldon earmark is study in the ways of the Hill
- In 2005, Rep. Curt Weldon (R., Pa.), the influential vice chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, was able to tack a $2 million "earmark" onto the fiscal 2006 defense spending bill for a firm in his district. The company - Dynamic Defense Materials L.L.C. - employs as its lobbyist...
- Research articles 2006-10-31
- Stevens Finally Opposes an Earmark
- As the Senate this month neared its summer recess, the senior Republican senator delivered a rebuke to the second-ranking Democratic leader. It generated little public notice, but the incident reflected that the current Senate as a partisan snakepit follows some traditional folkways. Sen. Ted Stevens (R.-Alaska), Senate president pro tempore,...
- Research articles 2006-08-21
- Nationwide 'Ending Earmarks Express' Visits St. LouisGroup Questions $1.5 Million Earmark to House Gephardt's Archives
- ST. LOUIS, April 12 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Americans for Prosperity Foundation's nationwide "Ending Earmarks Express" bus tour visited St. Louis, Mo., today for a stop at the Missouri Historical Society, which recently received a $1.54 million earmark for the establishment and maintenance of an archive for former U.S. Rep....
- Research articles 2006-04-12
- 13 Pro-Taxpayer Groups Send Coalition Letter to Pelosi Urging First- Day Action on Democratic Earmark-Reform Proposal ; Democratic House Should Pass Plan Emanuel, Van Hollen Offered Two Months Ago
- To: National DeskContact: Ed Frank or Annie Patnaude, 202-349-5880, both of Americans for Prosperity FoundationWASHINGTON, Nov. 10 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The free-market grassroots group Americans for Prosperity yesterday was joined by a dozen other pro-taxpayer organizations in sending a coalition letter to House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi urging the future...
- Research articles 2006-11-10
- CCAGW Calls Changes to Earmark Reform a Fiscal Fiasco
- To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: Leslie K. Paige, +1-202-467-5334, or Alexa Moutevelis, +1- 202-467-5318, both of the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste WASHINGTON, July 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste CCAGW today charged Senate and House conferees on ethics and lobbying reform with fleecing American taxpayers by...
- Research articles 2007-07-30
- Blunt Calls for Democrats to Join Republicans in Earmark Reform
- To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Nick Simpson, Antonia Ferrier, or Chris Tucker of the Office of House Republican Whip Roy Blunt, +1-202-226-7022 Blunt: 'We Are Waiting for [Democrats] Response' WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- House Republican Whip Roy Blunt (Mo.) issued the following statement regarding earmark reform today in advance...
- Research articles 2008-01-29
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