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So. This morning, Drudge posted these links: • RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $2,531,600 FOR 'HAM, WATER ADDED, COOKED, FROZEN, SLICED, 2-LB'... • RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $1,191,200 FOR '2 POUND FROZEN HAM SLICED'... • RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $1,562,568 FOR 'MOZZARELLA...
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Guess what’s in the health bill Congress has been working on? Aside from terrible policies designed to put our nation on the path to single-payer government care that will bankrupt the country and harm the health of millions of Americans, I mean. The Boston Globe reports: Tucked within is a provision...
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Unemployment is at the highest it's been in decades, the American people are hurting. Here comes President Obama's stimulus package to the rescue . . . with a $4 million project to add a bike and pedestrian path to a bridge? You read that correct, the Kansas City Star reports this planned project...
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Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) is coming under scrutiny for an earmark request for an exclusive private club. The Seattle Times has the story: A $250,000 request to fund a "window repair and limestone sill replacement" at The Rainier Club — one of Seattle's premier private clubs, whose...
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Eating pork is supposed to be good for your health . That must be the thinking behind the porky projects Sen. Mike Enzi of Wyoming found in pending healthcare legislation. As the top Republican on the Health, Environment, Labor and Pensions Committee, Enzi took a close look at the more than 600-page...
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Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) has long been known as a major porker in Congress, but suspicious dealings between Murtha and the PMA Group, which is under federal investigation for quid pro quo with lawmakers, along with other lobbyist groups have been piling up recently. The Washington Post had a good round...
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As the stimulus was passed, news was made about a clean-coal plant in Illinois that was a championed pet project of President Obama when he was Senator Obama. It was emphasized over and over again that although the plant could use money, it would not receive favoritism in the form of earmarks or special...
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In case you don't pay attention to news from our allies "across the pond", a massive spending scandal has engulfed the British Parliament, most of it being fueled by "small outrages" like expensive trips and unnecessary delights. This scandal has weakened public confidence in...
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Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) has become the poster child for everything that is wrong with the earmarking process. (Read a prior blog post on the Murtha Airport .) He uses his seniority and position on the Appropriations Committee to secure earmarks which he then passes on to companies he has personal relationships...
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It's easy to knock the earmark process when citing examples like $1.9 million for the Pleasure Beach water taxi service in Connecticut or $1.8 million for swine odor and manure management research in Ames, Iowa. But when it comes to defense earmarks meant to protect our men and women in battle, it...
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Earmarks are often defended as "congressionally directed spending" but sometimes the member of Congress does not know to what exactly they are directing the spending. Such was the case with Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) and an earmark in the recent omnibus spending bill. The Kansas City Star...
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It’s A Stimulus Stupid! Part Two! Last week when I left all you wonderful viewers we were talking about the alternative minimum tax increase found in the American Recover and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Now it is our duty to move on and uncover more of the nonsense that was passed off as “stimulating...
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Politicians love their pork projects and Citizens Against Government Waste loves to skewer them. In April, CAGW released their annual Pig Book which lists all the earmarks that were passed in the fiscal year 2009 appropriations bills. This year there were 10,160 earmarks worth $19.6 billion, up from...
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Chances are if you are reading this, you are familiar with the American Recover and Reinvestment Act of 2009. It is the shining star of the Barack Obama administration in its first hundred days or so. The Act includes federal tax relief, expansion of unemployment benefits and other social welfare provisions...
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