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  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. Links to House earmark disclosures in one database

    By Bill Allison Apr 6, 2009 6:19 p.m.

    House members had to post their earmark requests for fiscal year 2010 online this weekend; the original deadline was Friday, but that was extended to Saturday at 5 p.m., according to CNN.

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  3. Former PMA Group Clients Get Defense Earmarks from Murtha for 2010

    By Anupama Narayanswamy Apr 3, 2009 9:54 p.m.

    Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., has requested defense related funding for five companies that hired the PMA Group last year, according to a review of the earmark requests released on the Congressman's website. Murtha has requested a total of $23.8 million to be directed to these companies.

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  4. Dicks requests earmark for Concurrent Technologies

    By Bill Allison Apr 3, 2009 9:47 p.m.

    Rep. Norm Dicks requested one Defense earmark for one former client of PMA Group:

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  5. Moran requests funds for Samueli Institute

    By Bill Allison Apr 3, 2009 9:39 p.m.

    The press release is here. The Washington Post profiled the research facility a while back:

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  6. Nothing yet from Norm Dicks, C.W. "Bill" Young

    By Bill Allison Apr 3, 2009 9:14 p.m.

    As noted here, Rep. Norm Dicks is one of the more prolific PMA Group earmarks, and is number four on the list of top recipients of PMA Group & client campaign cash. Searching Dicks' site, I was unable to find a list of appropriations requests.

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  7. Moran requests nine defense earmarks for former PMA Group clients

    By Bill Allison Apr 3, 2009 7:30 p.m.

    Rep. James Moran released his list of appropriations requests today. A quick review shows he's asking for nine earmarks for former clients of PMA Group, worth a total of $17.5 million.

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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. Rangel: No accusations coming from Congress

    By Bill Allison Mar 24, 2009 7:36 p.m.

    Roll Call's Lauren W. Whittington reports that Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., once again, is saying that the ethics committee has nothing on him:

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  11. Dodd's family business?

    By Bill Allison Mar 24, 2009 2:58 p.m.

    Kevin Rennie notes another connection of Sen. Christopher Dodd to the financial industry, at one remove from AIG:

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  12. Senate channels "Not Me"

    By Bill Allison Mar 18, 2009 5:05 p.m.

    Maybe we should make members pass a quiz on the contents of bills before they're allowed to vote. Case in point: the bonus exemption in the Stimulus Bill that AIG executives took advantage of. Where it came from and how it got into the bill is a mystery:

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  13. World Bank says protection on the rise

    By Bill Allison Mar 18, 2009 12:36 p.m.

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  14. BankTracker debuts at Investigative Reporting Workshop

    By Bill Allison Mar 18, 2009 1:47 a.m.

    I've been doing some Webinars over the past few days for reporters to show off some features of SubsidyScope.com for looking at bailout data from Treasury and the FDIC. One of the things I keep telling them is that lots of groups are looking at this data, building tools for parsing and analyzing it, and they should stay tuned.

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