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In House and Senate, appropriators got most contributions from earmark recipients
By Bill Allison Jun 3, 2010 10:49 a.m.The Center for Responsive Politics and Taxpayers for Common Sense -- two of our favorite organizations -- have released their comprehensive earmark and influence database for fiscal year 2010 requests.
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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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TCS releases searchable earmark lists
By Bill Allison Sep 24, 2008 6:27 p.m.While most of Washington fixates on the $700 billion bailout package now being debated by the House Finance and Senate Banking Committees (Rep. Frank has added his own version of a bailout to the ones proposed by the administration and Sen. Christopher Dodd), our friends at Taxpayers for Common Sense are paying attention to some $600 billion in spending that Rep. David Obey, D-Ohio, concocted in secret, or, as he put it to Bloomberg News, operating "the old fashioned way by brokering agreements in order to get things done and I make no apology for it." Taxpayers has posted searchable lists of all the earmarks in the bill.
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TCS posts Senate Defense Authorization earmarks
By Bill Allison Sep 17, 2008 8:07 p.m.Our friends at Taxpayers inform us that they've just posted...
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Tracking earmarks from Obama and Biden
By Bill Allison Sep 13, 2008 1:29 p.m.Taxpayers for Commons Sense rolled out a pair of new databases on earmarks of presidential candidates, this time covering Sen. Barack Obama's requests from 2006 to 2008, and his funded earmarks for 2008. The databases are online here.
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TCS centralizes earmark data
By Bill Allison Aug 25, 2008 6:56 p.m.Our friends at Taxpayers for Common Sense have collected, in one handy spot, all of their Fiscal 2009 earmark data and trenchant analyses of same. So far, the Senate (which has much laxer earmark disclosure rules) has passed more bills than the House -- we saw the same pattern last year as well, though traditionally the House had run ahead of the Senate. All the files are available as downloadable spread sheets.
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Senate Milcon earmark file available from TCS
By Bill Allison Aug 8, 2008 2:14 a.m.Taxpayers for Common Sense has now posted a downloadable spreadsheet listing all earmarks from the S. 3301, the Senate Military Construction appropriations act.
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TCS releases Senate Transportaion & HUD earmark database
By Bill Allison Aug 6, 2008 8:08 p.m.Our friends at Taxpayers for Common Sense have analyzed, and compiled in a downloadable database available at the link, the earmarks from S. 3261, the Senate Transportation and Housing and Urban Development appropriations bill. They note,
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More on Stevens' earmarks
By Bill Allison Jul 31, 2008 3:16 p.m.The Washington Post notes that Alaskans are fretting the potential fallout of the indictment of Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, for not disclosing more than $250,000 in gifts from VECO Corp. Taxpayers for Common Sense sums it up more succinctly:
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How confusing are earmark disclosures?
By Bill Allison Jul 30, 2008 4:53 p.m.When Rep. Neil Abercrombie requested an earmark in the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations bill to fund "Saddle Road Phase 5," he listed (on page two of that mega file courtesy of Taxpayers for Common Sense), the "U.S. Army Garrison Hawaii, located at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii" as the entity that was the recipient of the funds. Search the spread sheet Taxpayers compile for the list of earmarks in that bill, and only one Abercrombie request turns up: a $9 million earmark for "Access Road, Ph 1" in Pohakuloa TA.
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TCS makes Milcon letters available
By Bill Allison Jul 29, 2008 6:32 p.m.Last Friday, Taxpayers for Common Sense updates us on where the House is on the Appropriations process (a few weeks back the process could best be described as "nyah nyah nyah," and "I'm rubber and you're glue, whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you,", to use the parliamentary terms favored by most members of Congress).
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