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2012/05/26 13:51
2012/05/26 13:51
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Study: Most Tariff Bills Would Count as ‘Earmarks’ Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call File Photo Updated: 7:32 p.m.The House Ways and Means Committee on Thursday published a list of approximately 1,300...
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2012/05/26 13:51
2012/05/26 13:51
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2012/05/25 20:24
2012/05/25 20:24
1d
... that need fixing; opposing a behemoth 2000+ page bill that is full of special interest Earmarks, contains an unconstitutional directive to require Americans to buy a particular consumer...
2012/05/23 23:02
2012/05/23 23:02
2d
... other shelters that get an average of $30 a night. Two amendments have been filed, one that Earmarks nearly half a million for Springfield shelters, another that raises more than $5 million to...
2012/05/23 22:35
2012/05/23 22:35
2d
... to put all our energies together." Congress members say the problem is this project is an Earmark and right now congress isn't voting on any Earmarks. But Jacksonville's local reps say they...
2012/05/23 20:43
2012/05/23 20:43
3d
... would remove $4 million for private nonprofits and local public projects. Davis opposes Earmarks and says he agrees with Massey's premise, but the Beaufort Republican says Mitchelville is...
2012/05/23 12:36
2012/05/23 12:36
3d
... the improvements in the first place—has contributed about $150 million in Earmarks, and there's no telling whether any more is on the way. The Brookings report (which was...
2012/05/23 06:24
2012/05/23 06:24
3d
... mid-year; uses $23 million in SPLOST II funds to help shave the property millage rate; and Earmarks $28.2 million in reserve funds. The board’s vote came four days after it took the...
2012/05/23 03:17
2012/05/23 03:17
3d
... $7.2 million tentative budget for the coming fiscal year, holding the line on taxes and fees and Earmarking some funds for a potential recreational complex. The city council voted unanimously,...
2012/05/22 09:02
2012/05/22 09:02
4d
... for May show collections running below estimate. Lawmakers are under a legal mandate to Earmark 25 percent of the year-end balance to replenish the "Rainy Day" budget reserve, added...
2012/05/22 05:11
2012/05/22 05:11
4d
... supposed to notice it — House Republican leaders are beginning to talk about bringing back Earmarks. Earmarks are spending measures targeted to specific lawmakers' districts, doled out by...
2012/05/21 01:20
2012/05/21 01:20
5d
... funding is an achievement given the deficit, the recession, and the Congressional shunning of Earmarks, which Stevens was famous for using to insert Alaska projects into budget bills. "Our...
2012/05/20 15:16
2012/05/20 15:16
6d
Corp., a Leesburg, Virginia-based advanced composites manufacturing and design company, said an Earmark Rogers added to a 2009 spending bill provided funding to buy the leak-proof pans for the...
2012/05/20 15:10
2012/05/20 15:10
6d
... role in obtaining the duty suspensions, which he views as another form of the spending Earmarks he’s led colleagues to ban. "Why must we erect needless obstacles and force businesses to...
2012/05/19 20:04
2012/05/19 20:04
7d
... influence. Private companies in this network received $227 million in federal loans, grants, Earmarks, and contracts since 2000. During the same period, Rep. Rogers helped steer more than $236...
2012/05/18 06:46
2012/05/18 06:46
8d
... supposed to notice it — House Republican leaders are beginning to talk about bringing back Earmarks. Earmarks are spending measures targeted to specific lawmakers' districts, doled out by...
2012/05/18 01:52
2012/05/18 01:52
8d
... nothing that could be done to remove the proposed Cemex mine site from the House list of "Earmarks." When the group of local residents asked Chairman Doc Hastings, R-Washington state, if he...
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2012/05/17 22:05
2012/05/17 22:05
8d
... of conservative political causes for the past few years. He founded Taxpayers Against Earmarks, a group that railed against spending on pet projects by lawmakers in 2010. In a web video...
2012/05/16 19:54
2012/05/16 19:54
10d
... fund a majority of the bills with about $20,000 left over from a pool of money that had been Earmarked for the appropriations table. With mostly unanimous votes and numerous amendments, the...
2012/05/16 08:21
2012/05/16 08:21
10d
... percent raises for the city's 350 employees, adds President's Day as a paid holiday and Earmarks $500,000 to assist in needed repairs to Woodland Elementary School. The city's coffers...
2012/05/15 23:10
2012/05/15 23:10
10d
... talk of putting it in a final House-Senate transportation bill. Weren’t grants like this — Earmarks by another name — supposed to be banished by Republicans in Congress? Yes. And for most...