Posted on March 31st, 2008 by Leslie Paige
Last week, John Stanton from Roll Call had a great article on how a top aide to Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-Ill.) is using his position to secure earmarks and funding to a town in which he is also an elected local official – which is against House rules. Illinois Aide Claims Earmarks Credit($) A top aide [...]
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Posted on March 28th, 2008 by Leslie Paige
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) and Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) discuss the legality of earmarks under the Constitution. Two guesses as to who’s right and the first one doesn’t count. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XE1_6AYx-A&rel=0&color1=0xcc2550&color2=0xe87a9f&hl=en] Most earmarks are only written into the conference reports of appropriations bills – not the actual laws that are voted on by members of Congress. As [...]
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Posted on March 28th, 2008 by Leslie Paige
Virginia Pork for Crabs and Sheep The 2009 federal budget will include funding for some strange animals if one Virginia lawmaker has his way. Rep. Rick Boucher, a Democrat from southwest Virginia, has requested $744,325 to study the horseshoe crab and $250,000 for hair sheep – a unique bread of short-haired sheep that does not [...]
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Posted on March 27th, 2008 by Leslie Paige
Possible shady dealings for an earmark in Massachusetts, from the Boston Herald: He dries (with a little help from his friend) $1M earmark boon to ex-rep’s home U.S. Rep. Bill Delahunt has pushed through $1.1 million in federal earmarks for a controversial Cohasset pond clean-up meant to stop flooding in a pricey waterfront neighborhood where his [...]
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Posted on March 26th, 2008 by Leslie Paige
From the Houston Chronicle: Amid re-election bid, McCaul vows to drop earmarks Republican Rep. Michael McCaul, apparently facing a stiff challenge for re-election in November, said Monday that he would no longer request controversial spending projects known as earmarks. McCaul’s well-financed opponent, Democrat Larry Joe Doherty, questioned the sincerity of the congressman’s reversal but said [...]
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Posted on March 24th, 2008 by Leslie Paige
More members of Congress agree to a personal one-year earmark moratorium. Deal, other Ga. Republicans join anti-earmark crusade More than half of Georgia’s Republicans in the U.S. House have joined an anti-earmark crusade and pledged to give up pet spending requests for their districts. They say quitting cold turkey will help shake up a free-spending [...]
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Posted on March 21st, 2008 by Leslie Paige
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Posted on March 21st, 2008 by Leslie Paige
Watch Media Director Leslie K. Paige discuss the failure of the earmark moratorium in the Senate: Watch Part 1 Then see Part 2
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Posted on March 20th, 2008 by Leslie Paige
Save the date! The annual 2008 Congressional Pig Book will be unveiled at a press conference at 9:30a.m. on April 2, 2008. The event will take place at the National Press Club with several members of Congress in attendance. Mascot PigFoot will be there with his friends – live pigs – Winnie and Dudley. Click [...]
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Posted on March 20th, 2008 by Leslie Paige
March Rhetorical Flim-Flam By Alexa Moutevelis=In the wake of the March 13 vote on a one-year moratorium on congressional earmarks, it is time for a post-mortem on who said what in the heat of the battle. Corn Ethanol is Not a Panacea By Elizabeth Wright All is not rosy with corn ethanol and other biofuels, [...]
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