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  1. Earmark requests due online today

    By Bill Allison Apr 3, 2009 7:02 p.m.

    I was just forwarded a press release from the office of Rep. Jeff Flake, reminding us that members have to post their earmark requests online today:

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  2. Top secret Appropriations earmark database crashes

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

    So reports Politico's Anne Schroeder Mullins.

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  3. Prairie Parkway dead?

    By Bill Allison Apr 2, 2009 6:51 p.m.

    So says Chicago Sun-Times columnist Lynn Sweet:

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  4. The Next Abramoff: PMA Group?

    By Bill Allison Mar 30, 2009 2:55 p.m.

    The New York Times reports:

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  5. Must everything be earmarked?

    By Bill Allison Mar 29, 2009 1:45 p.m.

    Columnist George Will argues that the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 -- the bailout bill that set up TARP, is unconstitutional because it delegates legislative power to the executive branch:

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  6. Muckety maps PMA Group giving

    By Bill Allison Mar 18, 2009 1:13 a.m.

    There have been lots of different ways of slicing PMA Group contributions from Congressional Quarterly and the Center for Responsive Politics (see here too). Now Muckety looks at the web of connections of top PMA Group lobbyist Paul Magliocchetti. From CQ's analysis, Muckety begins by noting:

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  7. Murtha's pass through earmarks

    By Bill Allison Mar 17, 2009 3 p.m.

    Earmark disclosure isn't going to do any good if members can designate a middle man to take funds, then distribute them to private companies. But that's exactly what the Washington Post says Rep. John Murtha has been doing, and they've got documents to back them up:

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  8. CRP: PMA Group, clients donated to 516 members of Congress

    By Bill Allison Mar 13, 2009 12:37 p.m.

    Lindsay Renick Mayer of the Center for Responsive Politics writes on OpenSecrets.org about PMA Group, the lobbying firm that specialized in defense appropriations and that is reportedly under investigation for campaign finance irregularities:

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  9. Another guilty plea in Abramoff case

    By Bill Allison Mar 10, 2009 6:30 p.m.

    Roll Call's Jennifer Yachnin reports:

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  10. House kills PMA probe

    By Bill Allison Mar 6, 2009 4:54 a.m.

    Shocking:

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  11. Visclosky endorses some form of action on PMA Group

    By Bill Allison Mar 5, 2009 10:35 p.m.

    A friend passes on this story:

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  12. Senate approves earmarks for PMA Group clients

    By Bill Allison Mar 5, 2009 5:05 a.m.

    Sen. Tom Coburn would like to do away with all earmarks; this evening the Senate voted on an amendment he proposed that would eliminate, from the Omnibus Appropriations bill, earmarks for 14 clients of the soon-to-be-defunct lobbying shop, the PMA Group. The purpose of the amendment read as follows:

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  13. 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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  14. 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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