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Bonner Earmark #6
By Bill Allison Feb 25, 2008 2:57 a.m.Rep. Jo Bonner attached his name to an earmark originally requested by Sen. Richard Shelby for $1,372,000 for the City of Mobile's Transit System, known as the Wave Transit System.
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Bonner Earmark #5
By Bill Allison Feb 25, 2008 2:36 a.m.Rep. Jo Bonner earmarked $245,000 in the Transportation, Housing & Urban Development appropriations bill to the "City of Jackson for construction of a building in conjunction with a 240-acre industrial development park."
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Bonner earmark #4
By Bill Allison Feb 24, 2008 2:17 p.m.Rep. Jo Bonner earmarked $245,000 for the Bay Area Food Bank for construction of a commercial-size kitchen. Bay Area Food Bank, which distributes food donated by grocery stores, restaurants and the like to soup kitchens and homeless shelters, doesn't have a federal lobbyist, according to the Senate Office of Public Records. To double check, I looked the organization up in Guidestar, a great resource for finding out about nonprofits--their forms 990 show no payments for lobbying. I also ran the names of the organization's executives and board members through OpenSecrets.org looking for campaign contributions, and found nothing.
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Bonner earmark #3
By Bill Allison Feb 23, 2008 11:03 p.m.I thought this one would be harder.
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Another Bonner Earmark, another lobbying link
By Bill Allison Feb 23, 2008 4:27 p.m.Going for the low hanging fruit first (earmarks in EarmarkWatch.org). So let's look at the $141,000 that the Alabama School of Math and Science in Mobile, Ala., got in the Labor, Health and Human Services and Education Appropriations Act.
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Aderholt's bio: record levels, responsibility
By Bill Allison Feb 23, 2008 3:13 a.m.I'm still looking mostly at the earmarks that Rep. Jo Bonner, R-Ala., has sponsored, but while I was looking at them, I came across the official biography that Rep. Robert B. Aderholt, another Alabama Republican, has on his Web site. The language is instructive:
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Following Bonner's earmarks
By Bill Allison Feb 22, 2008 10:23 p.m.Let's start with this earmark, because it's already in EarmarkWatch.org, and hence easy to research. A few interesting notes...
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Bonner & earmarks
By Bill Allison Feb 20, 2008 10:41 p.m.Last week, our friends in the Porkbusting movement expressed their dismay that the Republican House leadership chose Rep. Jo Bonner, R-Ala., over Rep. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., for an open slot on the House Appropriations Committee.
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Inspector General launches probe of Traffic.com contracts
By Bill Allison Feb 5, 2008 4:55 a.m.Transportation's Inspector General has launched an investigation of the Transportation Technology Innovation and Demonstration program--at the request of a pair of members of Congress, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y.--to determine whether the program, as administered by the Federal Highway Administration, fulfilled the goals set for it by Congress and whether FHWA met competitive procurement requirements that "intended to expand the number of firms providing surveillance services."
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Earmarks Boost Small Kentucky Businesses
By Anupama Narayanswamy Dec 18, 2007 8:53 p.m.After it hired a lobbyist and its employees' contributed to a member of Congress' leadership political action committee, a Kentucky company saw its defense business quadruple thanks to earmarks.
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The Favor Factory: Earmarks and Campaign Cash Connections
By Anupama Narayanswamy Oct 5, 2007 7:22 p.m.Three members of the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee have received an average of $102,600 in campaign contributions from employees and political action committees of the companies they've favored with earmarks in the first six months of 2007. The rest of the members of the subcommittee have netted collectively $180,000an average of about $12,800 per memberfrom the beneficiaries of their earmarks.
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(Federal) Help Wanted
By Bill Allison Oct 3, 2007 8:46 p.m.Via the invaluable blog devoted to developments in federal government ethics, the IEC Journal, I came across this Web course for federal workers on the issues raised by working with government contractors:
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Department of Energy correspondence logs
By Anupama Narayanswamy Sep 10, 2007 7:03 p.m.This article in the Washington Post yesterday on the earmarking process cites letters sent to the Department of Energy written by members of Congress including Rep. Rahm Emanuel in support of projects at the Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago and the Illinois Institute of technology.
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Seeing for myself on earmark disclsosure
By Bill Allison Jul 30, 2007 9:05 p.m.I'm going through the version of the bill N.Z. posted, and came across this language on page 68:
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