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CBS Evening News: Congress Spends Billions in Earmarks - Department of Defense Budget Has $5 Billion in Pet Projects ... Pet projects of individual members of Congress add 1,858 earmarks equaling $5 billion tax dollars on top of it. Sen. Tom Coburn is against earmarking altogether, saying it's fraught with conflicts of...
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www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/11/25/eveningnews/main5778...
www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/11/25/eveningnews/main5778601.shtml
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House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer declared Tuesday that Congress, not President Obama, will decide whether to put more limits on earmarks in upcoming spending bills. ... Earmarks are unrelated pet projects that members of Congress insert in unrelated spending bills.
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www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/03/spending.earmarks/index...
www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/03/spending.earmarks/index.html
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By contrast, the group Citizens Against Government Waste never considers "executive earmarks" when it makes its tally of pork spending. Its numbers include only those specific items that were added by members of Congress.
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www.slate.com/id/2139454/
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The instruments of this perversion are “earmarks,” special provisions attached to spending bills that direct federal money to specific projects. Earmarks are how Congress diverts spending to pork-barrel local priorities and to other special interests.
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www.nationalreview.com/lowry/lowry200512130836.asp
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President Bush told Congress last week that he wants to cut earmarks in half, a popular notion after the $223 million "bridge to nowhere" and other seemingly wasteful projects were tucked into the federal budget by lawmakers.
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www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/2...
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/28/AR2007012801158.html
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Members of Congress use "earmarks" to provide federal funding to companies, projects, groups and organizations, often in their district. This database in large part seeks to detail how the recipients of federal earmarks interact with the federal government through lobbying efforts and campaign contributions.
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www.opensecrets.org/bigpicture/earmarks.php
www.opensecrets.org/bigpicture/earmarks.php
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Washington - Even as the Bush administration urges Americans to stay the course in Iraq, Republicans in Congress have put down a quiet marker in the apparent hope that V-I Day might be only months away.
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www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100406T.shtml
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The $4-million grant in this year’s housing bill, which is the fifth in a series of similar congressional earmarks, wasn’t expected, Kamaski said. “This was a somewhat unusual year in that this earmark was not specifically requested,” ... GOP Congress Earmarks $4 Million for Leftist Pro-Illegal Alien Group...
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www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=10623
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After a one-year moratorium for most earmarks, Congress resumed directing noncompetitive grants for scientific research to favored constituents, including universities, this year, a new analysis says.
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chronicle.com/weekly/v54/i19/19a01702.htm
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