1. Download TCS's earmark request spreadsheet

    By Bill Allison Apr 8, 2009 2:55 p.m.

    Our friends at Taxpayers for Common Sense announce that they have a downloadable spreadsheet with what looks to me to be the definitive list of links to earmark request disclosures from House members. The Hill gives some good examples of how hard it is to find the disclosures.

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  2. Making sense of online earmark disclosures

    By Bill Allison Apr 7, 2009 2:13 p.m. 1 comment

    As noted immediately below, House members started disclosing, on their official Web sites, their requests for earmarks (which members use to allocate federal funds for specific projects and recipients) last Friday. Over the weekend, I started looking at the disclosures, more to see what format the disclosures were in rather than whether they were online by a certain time. Since Roll Call first reported the changes, this has been a concern of mine.

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