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Does the EPA collect SF-LLLs?
By Anupama Narayanswamy Jul 20, 2007 8:35 p.m.Browsing through the 2008 Senate Interior and Environment Appropriations Bill on the Taxpayers for Common Sense site, I noticed that one of the largest amounts ($11 million) was earmarked to the National Rural Water Association a non-profit organization that provides training and technical assistance and gives out sub-grants to water providers in rural areas. They receive grants from the USDA and the EPA.
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FHWA discouraging FOIA requests from potential contractors?
By Bill Allison Jul 9, 2007 9:02 p.m.Here's a little information on something we started looking into last February:
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Defense Contractors Reap Windfall in 2005 Earmarks
By Anupama Narayanswamy Jun 12, 2007 7:01 p.m.By Larry Makinson and Anupama Narayanswamy
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OMB will track phonemarks, but last-minute-marks present more of a problem
By Bill Allison Jun 4, 2007 10:39 p.m.Christin T. Baker, the associate director for communications in the Office of Management and Budget, voicemails and emails that OMB already tracks "nontraditional sorts of ways of getting projects funded" in its database, something they'll continue to do in 2008. Here's one example from 2005, gotten by downloading the CSV data from the site into an excel spreadsheet, sorting on the field called "Citation_Source" and looking for the ones that aren't bills or conference reports.
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OMB to continue tracking earmarks
By Bill Allison Jun 3, 2007 12:18 a.m.They've got a release on it here. I can't tell for sure from the memo, but it looks like Office of Management and Budget intends to track them in both House and Senate bills as they're reported out of committee, as they're voted on, and in conference reports as soon as they come out:
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Earmarks: Tip of the Iceberg?
By Bill Allison Apr 9, 2007 1:52 a.m.Three paragraphs jumped out at me from the final chapter of Robert G. Kaiser's excellent Washington Post series, Citizen K Street:
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CONTINUING WITH SOME OTHER EARMARKS
By Anupama Narayanswamy Apr 6, 2007 9:19 p.m.CONTINUING WITH SOME OTHER EARMARKS in the
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Delving into OMB's Earmark Data
By Bill Allison Apr 5, 2007 6:28 p.m.After fooling around with it for the last half-day or so, I feel confident I can pronounce the new OMB earmark database a great tool and a success for OMB, and I can't wait for the updates going forward.
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A day at the earmark races
By Bill Allison Apr 4, 2007 6:02 p.m.I'M TOO EASILY DISTRACTED by eamarks. Since the Office of Management and Budget posted its earmark database, I've found it hard to concentrate on the 1990 portion of the SF-LLL timeline (which is mostly written but still needs a lot of links). Instead, I keep looking up things like this:
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