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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Alexa Shrugged
on 06-24-2009
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Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) released a report highlighting waste in the stimulus package. The report, entitled 100 Stimulus Projects: A Second Opinion , is a counter to the Obama Administration's Recovery Report: 100 Days 100 Projects. The top ten most wasteful projects in the report are: 1. “Free”...
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on 06-22-2009
Filed under: wasteful spending, stimulus package, earmarks, Coburn
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...
Last week , I covered Rep. Pete Visclosky's (D-Ind.) involvement with the controversial PMA Group and said earmarks are the gateway to corruption. This week, we get a clearer picture of the reaches of this growing scandal. In Friday's Wall Street Journal , columnist Kimberly Strassel paints a...