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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on 06-24-2009
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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...
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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on 05-27-2009
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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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on 05-20-2009
Filed under: wasteful spending, pork, government spending, earmarks, spending, military spending, transparency