Earmark Spending

Local Demands Testing Spending Issue Rhetoric

AP | BEN EVANS | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — First-term Republican Rep. Tim Scott of Charleston, S.C., says he's looking for "any way in the world" to get federal money to expa...

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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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Congress Slashed Earmarks In 2009: White House Analysis

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Members of Congress obtained about 2,000 fewer pet projects for their home states last year, according to a White House analysis re...

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Republicans Top Earmark Spending List

Politico | JAKE SHERMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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The top earmarkers in both the House and Senate are Republicans, even after the GOP has spent much of the past year making fiscal restraint and runawa...

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AP's Debate Factcheck: Kissinger, Ahmadinejad, And More

AP | CALVIN WOODWARD and JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Some facts got lost when Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain confronted each other over the financial crisis, Iraq, th...

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