Earmark Ban

New GOP Lawmakers Don't Walk The Walk On Spending Issue

AP | DONNA CASSATA | Posted 07.23.2011

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WASHINGTON — Hard-charging Republicans who rallied voters last year with cries of "Stop the spending, ban the earmarks" are quietly offering a m...

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Harry Reid To Obama: 'Back Off

Politics Daily | January 25,| 1:17 PM | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Obama stressed earmark elimination in his State of the Union address Tuesday night, but the message didn't hit home with one of his closest ...

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Battle Over Proposed Earmark Ban Heats Up

AP | LAURIE KELLMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Congress' most unapologetic fan of big-money politics is backing a ban on pork-barrel earmarks and avoiding an early battle with co...

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Congressional Earmark Addicts Find New Ways To Get Their Fix

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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During the election season -- actually, during what seems like every election season, along with whatever "seasons" occur in the intervening periods b...

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Earmark Ban Supporters Find New Ways To Funnel Government Money Into Pet Projects

The New York Times | Ron Nixon | Posted 05.25.2011

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No one was more critical than Representative Mark Steven Kirk when President Obama and the Democratic majority in the Congress sought passage last yea...

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GOP Earmark Ban Supporters Claiming Hundreds Of Earmarks

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — More than two dozen senators – most of them Republicans – put hundreds of homestate projects in the $1.3 trillion bill ...

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Earmarks Are Evil Except Mine

Jeff Danziger | Posted 05.25.2011

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John Cornyn Up In Arms Over All The Earmarks Not Requested By John Cornyn

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's been two long years of the GOP obstructing bills and complaining about spending, and then watching the same obstructionists and complainers turning around to take credit for the money that got spent.

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Earmark Lovers Feast On Pork Before Tea Party-Backed GOP Insurgents Storm Congress

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The spending barons on Capitol Hill, long used to muscling past opponents of bills larded with pet projects, are seeking one last v...

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Earmark Ban Proponents Finding It Hard To Quit Earmarks

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mere weeks after an election cycle in which it became a cause in conservative circles, senators showed up for work determined to ban earmarks. And wh...

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Report Reveals 39,294 Earmark Requests Exceeding $100 Billion In Just One Year

Politico | Manu Raju | Posted 05.25.2011

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Members of Congress requested almost 40,000 earmarks that exceeded $100 billion directed to their home districts and states for the current fiscal yea...

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GOP Earmark Ban Rejected By Bipartisan Group In Senate Vote

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — By a nearly 3-2 margin, the Senate voted Tuesday to let lawmakers keep sprinkling bills with home-state pet projects like roads, br...

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Earmarks Still In High Demand Despite GOP Ban On Pork

McClatchy | Lesley Clark | Posted 05.25.2011

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House Republicans are spurning earmarks. Their Republican counterparts in the Senate, including a yet-to-be-sworn-in Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, also ar...

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GOP Earmark Ban Won't Stop Lawmakers From Injecting Taxpayer Dollars Into Pet Projects

AP | ALAN FRAM | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Despite their claims, the Republicans' ban on earmarks won't stop lawmakers from steering taxpayers' dollars to pet projects. And i...

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Howard Fineman On Earmarks As 'Appetizers'

Huff TV | Posted 05.25.2011

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HuffPost's Howard Fineman appeared on MSNBC's "Hardball" Tuesday evening to discuss the GOP's proposed ban on legislative earmarks, which he attribute...

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Potential GOP Presidential Candidates Weigh In On Earmark Ban

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011

The current debate among Republicans about banning earmarks has become such a big issue that candidates looking forward to potential presidential runs...

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Tea Party Republicans Win Earmark Fight

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mitch McConnell has realized that this battle was really not worth fighting, and has thus thrown in the towel on his opposition to the outright ban on earmarks.

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GOP Senators Back Earmark Ban After Requesting MILLIONS In Pork

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing & Elyse Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011

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GOP senators have begun sharpening their swords for an epic face-off over a proposed earmark ban, a measure that some members of Congress believe must...

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Rand Paul Suggests He'll Fight For Earmarks He Earlier Promised To Ban

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011

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Less than a week after his election, Kentucky's Senator-elect Rand Paul already appears to be making a rapid departure away from one of his campaign p...

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Eric Cantor Opposes Compromise On Extending Bush Tax Cuts

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Just as Senate Minority Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has attempted to lower expectations in recent days by saying that Republicans can't real...

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GOP Leaders Ignore Tea Party's Calls For Earmark Ban

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's official: GOP leaders in the House and Senate have both confirmed that they will buck calls from the Tea Party and not back a ban on federal earm...

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Senate Republicans Consider Divisive Earmark Ban

Roll Call | John Stanton and Jackie Kucinich | Posted 05.25.2011

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Senate Republicans, who remain deeply divided over how to handle the controversial issue of earmarks, will meet this week to hash out whether they sho...

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Friday Talking Points [115] -- Git 'Er Done!

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Call it the calm before the storm. What everyone's waiting on is for Congress to leap into action. But, in a surprising twist, this time it might actually happen.

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Earmark Rule Changes: Lobbyists Scrambling To Keep Money Flowing

New York Times | ERIC LICHTBLAU | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Jolted by a sudden tightening of the rules, lobbyists and military contractors who have long relied on lucrative earmarks from Congress ...

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Banning Earmarks

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's more fun to watch Massa's implosion on nationwide television, but we shouldn't allow this to distract us from what could shape up this year as a contest between Democrats and Republicans over who can denounce earmarks the loudest.

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