Posted on December 29th, 2007 by Leslie Paige
On December 28th, Presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee held a conference call with bloggers. Our friend Robert Bluey over at the Heritage Foundation made good use of our recent release on the candidates’ ratings and asked Gov. Huckabee about what he would do about the epidemic of earmarks. Robert shared the exchange with us, so here it is: Robert Bluey [...]
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Posted on December 29th, 2007 by Leslie Paige
Last week, CCAGW issued a press release listing CCAGW’s Ratings of each candidate who has had a voting record in Congress. Here is the release in full, which includes their respective CCAGW ratings: As the Presidential primary season heats up, the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste (CCAGW) today released its earmark candidate challenge. The passage of the [...]
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Posted on December 24th, 2007 by Leslie Paige
Below is the full text of the letter that CAGW, along with 19 other fiscal watchdog groups sent to President Bush asking him to use an executive order to strike all the more than 9000 earmarks from that abysmal omnibus spending bill that passed right before everyone scattered to celebrate the holidays: Mr. President: This past week, [...]
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Posted on December 21st, 2007 by Leslie Paige
Where Will $800 Million of Taxpayers’ Money Go? ‘Tis the season for Congress to load up on goodies. Nine thousand projects costing more than $8 billion — many of them approved without close scrutiny. Congress calls them earmarks. Democrats put in some to help members facing tough races, such as $430,000 for local projects to [...]
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Posted on December 20th, 2007 by Leslie Paige
Read this article in today’s Washington Post if you want a grim and infuriating reminder of the insidious and corruptive influence of earmarks and why they are dangerous for our political process (how quickly we have forgotten the Duke Cunningham lessons). They are NOT, by and large, benign projects inserted by do-good members of Congress, who know best what their districts’ needs are, [...]
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Posted on December 19th, 2007 by Leslie Paige
Do yourself a favor and watch this, a six-minute segment of Sen. Jim DeMint’s (R-S.C.) speech against this monstrous omnibus budget bill on the floor of the U.S. Senate today. The citizens of South Carolina and taxpayers around this nation owe a debt of gratitude to him, and the others like him, in the House and Senate, who [...]
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Posted on December 19th, 2007 by Leslie Paige
. . . is Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) for thwarting three amendments to the farm bill that would have provided some modest reform. Read more here
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Posted on December 19th, 2007 by Leslie Paige
Search through earmarks in the Omnibus here and comment on the juiciest ones you find on the Swine Line blog!
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Posted on December 19th, 2007 by Leslie Paige
See Tom Schatz on ABC World News tonight to discuss the Omnibus bill. Check your local listings!
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Posted on December 18th, 2007 by Leslie Paige
Watch Tom Schatz discuss the Omnibus and Farm Bill as well as announce December’s Porker of the Month on CNBC’s Pork Watch
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