Gop Earmarks

How Does A $214 Million Earmark Gets Votes From Paul, Bachmann?

Roll Call | John Stanton | Posted 08.29.2011

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How does a policy earmark worth more than $214 million garner the votes of conservatives such as GOP Reps. Michele Bachmann (Minn.) and Ron Paul (Texa...

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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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Republican Senators Say They'll Vote Against Their Own Earmarks

Washington Post | Philip Rucker and Paul Kane | Posted 05.25.2011

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The port city of Pascagoula on Mississippi's Gulf Coast wants to build a beach promenade, with new benches, lush landscaping and a lighted pathway for...

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Hal Rogers, 'Prince Of Pork,' To Be Appointed GOP Chairman Of House Appropriations Committee

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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A Kentucky congressman who has honed his skills at winning pork-barrel projects is in line to head the House committee that will spearhead the Republi...

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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 Could Pick 'Prince Of Pork' To Become Next House Appropriations Committee Chairman

ABC News | Jonathan Karl | Posted 05.25.2011

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So, who will Republicans choose to run the committee that controls the government's purse strings? Will it be a proven deficit hawk? A fiscal conser...

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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 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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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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John McCain Calls For More Sweeping Ban On Earmarks

Posted 05.25.2011

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At the end of a week when House Republicans agreed to suspend all forms of earmark carve-outs on next year's spending bills, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz....

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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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Obey Tells GOP They Can't Have Their Pork And Eat It Too

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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The GOP may be the party of no -- but when it comes to individual Republican lawmakers taking credit for federally-funded projects in their home state...

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2010 Midterm Elections Inspire New GOP Strategy

CQ Politics | Alan K. Ota | Posted 05.25.2011

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House Republicans are devising a political platform -- informally dubbed "Ten for '10"-- to better position their party for the 2010 midterm elections...

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GOP Hates Earmarks - Except The Ones Its Members Sponsor: McClatchy

McClatchy | David Lightman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Republicans are expected to deliver a daylong rant Wednesday against Democratic spending legislation, yet the bill is loaded with thousands of pet pro...

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