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House Republicans will suck up $4.5 billion for pet projects in their districts, also known as earmarks, in the upcoming spending bills that most of them will probably vote against. House Speaker ...
by Joan McCarter
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on Tue Mar 05, 2024 at 06:30 AM PST
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Remember "earmarks," aka "porkbarrel spending," officially known as "member-directed spending"? They've been a favorite target of both Democratic and Republican deficit peacocks to point out "wasteful spending" on the part of the other guy. Earmarks...
by Joan McCarter
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on Mon Feb 15, 2021 at 12:54 PM PST
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I lay the blame for chronic legislative gridlock squarely at the feet of the effective ban on earmarks. Without a tangible incentive to keep the a dialog open, opposing interests are eventually reduced to debating philosophy and shouting slogans at...
by Random82
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on Sat Jan 09, 2021 at 10:02 AM PST
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If you've been watching the headlines lately, the President Elect has been announcing picks for various positions. (The Disloyal Opposition is still pretending it’s not going to happen.) Biden has been getting attention with the mix of people getting...
by xaxnar
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on Tue Dec 08, 2020 at 03:21 PM PST
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What changed in government to stop any aspect of corporation. The answer is the removal of earmarks. Years ago the GOP was able to push that pork was bad for our country and remove earmarks from the majority of legislation. With no incentive to...
by jkb246
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on Mon Nov 09, 2020 at 06:55 AM PST
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The thing you need to remember about Donald Trump's new passion for congressional earmarks, delivered in a now-predictably bizarre aside during what was in theory a meeting about immigration policy,
by Hunter
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on Thu Jan 11, 2018 at 06:00 PM PST
with 64 Recommends
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North Carolina’s new Democratic governor, Roy Cooper, finds himself in yet another tussle with the state’s Republican-controlled General Assembly — this time over the crazy state budget for 2017-2019 that the legislature’s GOP supermajority is fast...
by DocDawg
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on Tue Jun 27, 2017 at 07:13 AM PDT
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The weather forecast was for a very hot day -- ninety degrees. Regardless, I wanted to witness an on the ground action by Rise and Resist, a group active in response to the election of Donald Trump. (Full disclosure: I am a member of a New York...
by Marcia G Yerman
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on Thu May 25, 2017 at 03:08 PM PDT
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Who knew he'd need that Inside-the-Beltway boost in Salary in order to pay out hush money in the millions over the years ...
How ‘Public Servant’ Hastert Got His Riches
by Ana Marie Cox, ...
by jamess
28 comments
on Sun May 31, 2015 at 11:41 AM PDT
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I’ve noted that the debate regarding bringing back earmarks has surfaced yet again. It is particularly noteworthy because, unusually for Congress, this is a bipartisan issue – in other words, ...
by Mopshell
15 comments
on Mon Aug 11, 2014 at 02:00 PM PDT
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Yesterday’s victory of Thad Cochran over Chris McDaniel essentially eliminates Travis Childers’ chances of turning MS-SEN into a Dem pickup this November, since Childers’ only (and very slim) ...
by Possible Liberal
24 comments
on Wed Jun 25, 2014 at 04:03 AM PDT
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Well we are learning what the Senate Minority Leader thought was most important for cutting a deal.
by Vladislaw
46 comments
on Wed Oct 16, 2013 at 05:08 PM PDT
with 29 Recommends
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Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito (R. WV-2), who is running for Senator Jay Rockefeller's (D. WV) seat, reassured everyone that she will continue being a puppet for big coal in the U.S. Senate:
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by poopdogcomedy
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on Sun Apr 21, 2013 at 10:00 AM PDT
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The Club For Growth doesn't like Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito (R. WV-2) running for Senator Jay Rockefeller's (D. WV) seat. They claim that she's a big government Republican who likes to ...
by poopdogcomedy
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on Thu Apr 04, 2013 at 12:51 PM PDT
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by Laura Clawson
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on Mon Aug 20, 2012 at 11:49 AM PDT
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Turns out, James Inhofe, on record as 3rd dumbest member of Congress , has a checkered past in supporting development of alternative fuels. He's for them, and he's against them. This is based on a ...
by ChuckInReno
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on Tue Aug 07, 2012 at 12:57 PM PDT
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House GOP freshmen
Oy . (Oink?)
Hypocrisy alert: House Republican freshmen are begging their leaders to bring back a certain type of earmark so that they can help companies back home in an ...
by Joan McCarter
33 comments
on Tue Apr 24, 2012 at 10:29 AM PDT
with 42 Recommends
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The tea party's anti-earmark jihad gave House Speaker John Boehner a tear party
Shocking news! House Republicans think maybe banning earmarks wasn't such a good idea after all. Alabama Republican ...
by Jed Lewison
40 comments
on Mon Apr 02, 2012 at 06:53 AM PDT
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by Hunter
56 comments
on Wed Feb 08, 2012 at 05:00 PM PST
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Reporters' findings prove the need for more transparency on who benefits from congressional earmarks Consequent to complaints and pressure from the tea party wing of the Republican ...
by Meteor Blades
25 comments
on Tue Feb 07, 2012 at 11:41 AM PST
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