Top secret Appropriations earmark database crashes

By Bill Allison Apr 03 2009 3:37 p.m.

So reports Politico's Anne Schroeder Mullins.

Question: Why isn't this data public:

Earmarks. If you don't think the Appropriations Committees have a database of earmarks, you're naive. Of course they do - it's valuable information. Now, about sharing it in anything but an image PDF format well, let's just say that Keith Ashdown and the folks at Share |

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