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  1. Transportation earmark request update

    By Bill Allison Jun 2, 2009 7:33 p.m.

    We haven't been updating the database of House Transportation Reauthorization earmark requests beyond what we found the first night. Eventually I'll find the time to update this, but here's some from Rep. Barron Hill that were passed on to me in a comment to an earlier post. They were posted the morning of May 15, which was after we did our searches.

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  2. Investment Ratings Tank for Home Loan Banks

    By Sarah Dorsey Jun 2, 2009 3:14 p.m.

    They hold $1.3 trillion in assets and, chances are, you've never heard of them.

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  3. CREW visualizes Murtha web

    By Bill Allison May 29, 2009 5:49 p.m.

    Here's a picture worth well over a thousand words: Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has assembled an interactive, "You Don't Know Jack" graphic showing the connections between Murtha, a trio of lobbying firms, relatives, staffers and the companies for whom he's gotten earmarks.

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  4. Turning 100 Days, 100 Projects into data

    By Bill Allison May 29, 2009 3:50 p.m.

    Chauncey Thorn of CongressSpacebook has made the 100 Days, 100 Projects report searchable. And I've slapped together a little Dabble database here that's a work in progress -- note all the "not specified" that run all the way through it.

  5. Why there's so little spending data on Recovery.gov

    By Bill Allison May 29, 2009 2:14 a.m.

    Because apparently, there's not all that much spending yet:

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  6. Washington savvy firm gets stimulus bucks

    By Bill Allison May 28, 2009 11:22 p.m.

    Number two of the 100:

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  7. Oblique allusion to contract data available on Recovery.gov

    By Bill Allison May 28, 2009 8:36 p.m.

    We have a partial winner. My colleague Greg Elin has tracked down, on Recovery.gov, this announcement:

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  8. Jake Tapper finds $27 million=$59,000

    By Bill Allison May 28, 2009 3:54 p.m.

    I am still playing around with the spread sheet of the 100 projects, which I'll be posting in some form (probably Dabble) in a bit. Right now I'm looking to see if I can find any of these projects listed on Recovery.gov, the agency Recovery Web pages, FedBizOpps.gov, USASpending.gov, and other places. Not sure I'll do this for all 100 projects.

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  9. Clip job

    By Bill Allison May 28, 2009 5:02 a.m.

    Of the 100 projects listed in the 100 Days, 100 Projects report, 37 come from newspaper, wire service and broadcast outlets. So why is government depending on Nexis searches for its data on Recovery spending?

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  10. West Virginia...

    By Bill Allison May 28, 2009 3:14 a.m.

    ...is apparently in the Midwest. Look at project numbers 56 and 57 in the 100 Days, 100 Projects report...

  11. How much stimulus money does it take to screw in a compact fluorescent light bulb?

    By Bill Allison May 28, 2009 1:51 a.m.

    Apparently $109.5 million. From the aforementioned 100 Days, 100 Projects report:

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  12. Open Secrets of 100 Days, 100 Projects

    By Bill Allison May 27, 2009 11:26 p.m.

    Hm. The Obama Administration released a new report on Recovery spending, 100 Days, 100 Projects. "As we worked to compile the Report, all of us were struck by the very personal stories that we came across. We learned that Recovery is about more than just projects. It's about helping people who have been hit hard by the worst recession of our lifetimes," the blog post announcing the work states.

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  13. Delving into Rep. Lewis' earmark requests

    By Bill Allison May 26, 2009 9:27 p.m.

    Ben Goad reports for the Press Enterprise that Rep. Jerry Lewis, former chair and now ranking member of the Appropriations Committee, earmarked $96 million for firms represented by Innovative Federal Strategies, which was once under federal investigation:

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  14. Links to Senate earmark disclosure requests in a database

    By Bill Allison May 20, 2009 3:13 p.m.

    They labeled them as funding priorities, programs and project requests, investments in their states and, in just one case, earmarks. They posted image files that can't be cut and pasted, tables, single files with every item or dozens of files for each individual item. Still, 96 members of the Senate have, for the very first time, posted their earmark requests for appropriations bills online"and you can find all the links to those disclosures here.

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