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  1. Appropriations Omnibus released

    By Bill Allison Feb 23, 2009 9:56 p.m.

    The House Committee on Rules has released the latest legislative tome -- this time, the rest of the FY2009 appropriations. The Labor-HHS-Education portion of the report -- available here -- is packed with earmarks. If you can download the pdf (I had trouble getting it to go), check pages 81 to 84 -- lots of earmarks in small type -- but no sponsor names (unless I'm missing something).

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  2. Hidden earmarks?

    By Bill Allison Feb 23, 2009 8:37 p.m.

    This passage is from page 85 of the Labor, HHS, Education portion of the committee report for the big appropriations bill:

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  3. Who's seeking A Piece of the Action?

    By Bill Allison Feb 23, 2009 5:48 p.m.

    The bailout (the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act, the Troubled Asset Relief Program, TARP, etc.) and the stimulus (the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act) are massive pieces of legislation with lots of moving parts. Thus, the more eyeballs on them and what's around them, the better.

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  4. Treasury Taking a Bath on TARP

    By Bill Allison Feb 17, 2009 5:55 p.m.

    Via twitter, via Right Org, comes this very cool way of tracking the Treasury Department's Troubled Asset Relief Program investments from Ethisphere -- almost like an S&P index of stocks of publicly traded firms that have received money from TARP:

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  5. Genealogy of the Stimulus Bill

    By Bill Allison Feb 9, 2009 9:11 p.m.

    The current economic crisis does seem to present a combination of circumstances (the housing crisis, a credit crisis, declining international trade, rising unemployment), some of which are causes, some of which are symptoms, none of which--of course--are particularly pleasant for those going through them. So how does Congress, legislatively, address new circumstances? Do members and their staffs (and the lobbyists whispering in their ears) craft bills to solve the problems at hand? Or do they go through their archives and relabel old bills as solutions to new problems?

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  6. Greasing the stimulus with pork?

    By Bill Allison Feb 5, 2009 4:45 p.m.

    Glenn Reynolds flags the latest twist on earmarks -- we'll have them, but call them something else:

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  7. Ethics Panel to Clear Rangel?

    By Bill Allison Feb 4, 2009 4:13 p.m.

    House Ways and Means Chairman Charles B. Rangel predicted, on C-SPAN's Newsmakers program that aired Sunday, Feb. 1, 2009, that his multitude of ethics woes would soon disappear. "I think that next Tuesday you will see a break in this and as soon as the Ethics Committee organizes they ought to be able to dismiss this," National Journal's CongressDaily quoted the Rangel as saying.

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  8. Update on Earmark Disclosure

    By Bill Allison Jan 8, 2009 8:23 p.m.

    Just spoke to Kirstin Brost, the press contact of the House Appropriations Committee, who was kind enough to tell me that while not all of the details of the new earmark rules have been worked out, when members disclose their earmark requests, they will include the name of the beneficiaries. (Our friends at Taxpayers for Common Sense told us they had heard the same thing).

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  9. NY Times: Clinton Foundation Donor got help from Hillary

    By Bill Allison Jan 5, 2009 2:32 a.m.

    Digging down deep into the list of Clinton Foundation donors, the New York Times finds that a donor had gotten considerable help from Sen. Hillary Clinton:

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  10. Updates to Clinton donors

    By Bill Allison Dec 19, 2008 5:25 p.m.

    Just a running commentary on what I'm finding.

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  11. Wall Street Journal profiles donors...

    By Bill Allison Dec 18, 2008 9:21 p.m.

    ...here

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  12. Clinton Foundation releases donor list;

    By Bill Allison Dec 18, 2008 8:12 p.m.

    ...and, thanks to my Sunlight colleague Larry Makinson and DabbleDB.com, we've got it available in a database format. The source material is here, but I couldn't get into the first page (glad that Larry could).

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  13. Madoff's firm lobbied for earmarks

    By Bill Allison Dec 18, 2008 7:03 p.m.

    Yesterday I was talking to some folks about whether, given the trillions potentially committed to bailouts, there's any sense in continuing to probe earmarks. I say of course there is.

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  14. Blagojevich indictment visualized

    By Bill Allison Dec 9, 2008 6:58 p.m.

    I found it at the Chicago Tribune. Here's the text of it in Many Eyes, as a word tree. Interesting words to search in addition to Intercepted: Senate seat, Tribune Editorial Board, Campaign and Rezko.

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