Pork Barrel Spending

Why Rural Senators Want A Big Nuclear Arsenal

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Russia, Elections 2012, Icbm, Arms Control, Navy, Icbm Coalition, New Start Treaty, Air Force, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Barack Obama, Video, Montana Senate 2012, Nuclear Weapons, Campaign Contributions, North Korea Nuclear Program, Pork Barrel Spending, Jon Tester, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- North Korea's failed rocket launch and new arms talks with Iran have thrust the issue of nuclear proliferation back into the headlines. ...

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GOP Senate Candidate Learns Valuable Lesson About 'Pork'

The Huffington Post | Mollie Reilly | Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Mark Neumann, Video, Wisconsin Senate, Wisconsin, Earmarks, 2012 Election, Elections 2012, Gop, Pork Barrel Spending, Pork, Politics News

In an effort to draw attention to government spending, former Wisconsin congressman Mark Neumann brought a live pig to a press conference to symbolize...

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Why the Tea Party Is Doomed to Fail

Andrew Veselka | Posted 01.18.2012

Read More: Tea Party, Michele Bachmann, College, John Boehner, Spending, Fiscal Conservatism, Pork Barrel Spending, Rick Perry, Dickinson College, Newsweek, College News

There is a major flaw in the Tea Party's over-simplistic plan to fix America: it is impossible to actually implement.

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Tea Party Lawmakers' Spending Hypocrisy Revealed

Newsweek | Daniel Stone | Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: House of Representatives, Congress, Michele Bachmann, Tea Party Spending, Pork Barrel, Earmarks, John Boehner, Ron Paul, Allen West, Pork Barrel Spending, Tea Party, Eric Cantor, Politics News

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, the Republican leadership's tether to the Tea Party, flutters the hearts of the government-bashing, budget-slicing ...

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Will Boehner's Pork Project Be the Next Solyndra?

Elliott Negin | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Wind Power, John Boehner, Coal Industry, Oil Subsidies, Nuclear Power, Renewable Energy, Pork Barrel Spending, Clean Energy, Green Energy, Energy Policy, Solar Power, Politics News

John Boehner thinks new energy sources should "stand on their own" But he apparently doesn't feel the same way about "old" energy sources -- namely oil and gas, coal, and nuclear -- which have been sucking on the federal teat for more than 50 years.

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The Bridge to Nowhere-Except-Your-Wallet Keeps Chugging Along

David Boaz | Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: Pork Barrel Spending, Alaska, Public Choice Economics, Bridge to Nowhere, Sarah Palin, Politics News

Remember Alaska's "bridges to nowhere" that created a flurry of controversy in 2005 and then were an issue in the 2008 presidential race? They became national symbols of earmarks and wasteful spending. But boondoggles are hard to kill.

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What The Feds Know About Cutting Waste -- And Why They Don't Succeed

AOL Government | Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: Pork Barrel Projects, u.s. Governmen Spending, Government, Waste in Government, U.S. Government, Federal Budget Deficit, Government Spending, Pork Barrel Spending, Government Waste, Federal Spending, Federal Budget, Politics News

A recent survey of government employees revealed that federal workers have a strong desire, and many ideas, on how government needs to be restructured...

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The Contract Society: It's Time to Become Citizens Not Customers

Terry Newell | Posted 05.28.2011

Read More: Civic Duty, Citizenship, Entitlements, Pork Barrel Spending, Contracting, Ted Stevens, Politics News

Welcome to the contract society. In the contract society, "citizens" have become government's "customers," and they judge government by how satisfied they are with what they get.

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Familiar Recipe Cooking Once Again

Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 05.25.2011

We've tasted this recipe before. A crisis is created. Panic is fomented by politicians, pundits, media, business and others. "Something must be don...

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Earmark Reform: Building a Bridge to Somewhere

Melanie Sloan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Congress, Pork Barrel Spending, Alaska, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, Melanie Sloan, Earmarks, Bridge to Nowhere, Politics News

Over the past Congress, both parties have tried to outdo each other in cutting back on earmarks, but at this point, neither party has proposed a workable long-term solution to the problem.

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REJECTED!

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Paterson New York Budget, Albany, Video, Paterson Budget, Albany Budget, Government Shutdown, New York Budget, Pork Barrel Spending, Extraordinary Session, New York Shutdown, New York Legislature, New York News

ALBANY, N.Y. (Associated Press) - Gov. David Paterson tried to deliver his budget bill to the Legislature on Monday morning, but the Assembly and Sena...

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Congress Slashed Earmarks In 2009: White House Analysis

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Earmarks, Congressional Earmarks, Earmark Spending, Pork, Pork Barrel Spending, Earmark Reform, Politics News

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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Obama Pushes Bill To Cut Earmarks, Wasteful Spending

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama, Barack Obama, Obama Spending, Obama Spending Cuts, Obama Spending Bill, Pork, Pork Barrel Spending, Obama Pork, Politics News

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama sent legislation to Congress on Monday that would allow him to force lawmakers to vote on cutting earmarks a...

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John McCain Calls For More Sweeping Ban On Earmarks

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gop Earmarks Ban, Earmarks, Republican House, Gop, Pork Barrel Spending, Gop Earmarks, Republicans, GOP House, John McCain Earmarks, Mccain, McCain Earmarks, John McCain, Politics News

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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Republican Earmarks: Fool Me Twice?

Scott Lilly | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pork Barrel Spending, Pork, Earmarks, John Boehner, Republicans, Politics News

Congressional Republicans seem to hope that no one will remember what they said about earmarks before they won control of Congress and what they did about them after they were in charge.

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Corporate Earmark Ban: House Dems Plan To Cut Earmarks From Spending Bills

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Democrats, House Democrats, House Dems, Earmarks, Corporate Earmarks, Pork, Pork Barrel Spending, Pork Barrel, Dems Corporate Earmarks, Democrats Corporate Earmarks, Dems Corporate Earmark Ban, Dems Earmark Ban, Democrats Earmakr Ban, Politics News

WASHINGTON (AP)- House Democratic leaders announced Wednesday that they will ban the much-criticized practice of using annual spending bills to direct...

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Members of Congress Have Violated Their Oath of Office

Judge H. Lee Sarokin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Audacity of Hope, Deficit, Bipartisanship, Pork, Health Care, Constitution Oath, Senate, Pork Barrel Spending, Democrats, Republicans, Politics News

All members of Congress take an oath that includes these words: "I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter." Most -- maybe all -- have violated that pledge.

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Republicans Top Earmark Spending List

Politico | JAKE SHERMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Earmark Spending, Earmarks, Pork Barrel List, Gop, Republican Earmarks, Pork Barrel Spending, Pork, Gop Pork, Earmark List, Republicans, Gop Earmarks, Politics News

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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Why Your Representatives Should Make You Mad as Hell

John W. Whitehead | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Congress Perks, Congress, 2009 Elections, Congress Work Week, Network, Congress Approval Ratings, Ward 72, John Kerry, Pork Barrel Spending, Herb Kohl, Water Reed, Politics News

Congress should be America's representative body, yet too many of its members bear little resemblance to those they have been elected to represent.

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Senate/Assembly Pork: Who's Getting the Choicest Cuts?

Times Union | Times Union | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pork Barrel, New York State Senate, Grants, New York State, Pork Barrel Spending, New York State Assembly, Pork, New York, Legislation, New York News

Under Democratic control of the Senate, upstate lost nearly $26 million in member items, the discretionary grants doled out by legislators commonly ca...

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Stimulus Has Millions In Spending On Actual Pork, Ham

New York Post | GEOFF EARLE | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Department of Agriculture, Food Banks, Stimulus Spending, Pork Barrel Spending, Pork, Stimulus, Business News

Millions of dollars for pork. No, we mean actual pork. The NY Post reports today that the government is going on a stimulus spending "deli run," with ...

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Gates Grounds the Airborne White Elephant Laser

Joe Cirincione | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Airborne Laser, Robert Gates, Center for Defense Information, Missile Defense, President Obama, Pork Barrel Spending, Boeing Company, President George W. Bush, Rep. Ellen Tauscher, Boeing 747, Politics News

Now reporting to President Obama, who favors weapons programs that are effective and affordable, Gates is finally free to say that many of these programs don't work.

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How Obama Will Keep Michigan Blue in 2010

Susan J. Demas | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michigan Budget, Gop, John McCain, Sonia Sotomoayor, John Cherry, Gm, 2010 Election, Reagan Democrats, Government Spending, Macomb County, Anderson Cooper, Joe Biden, Stimulus, Ray Lahood, Barack Obama, Chrysler, Gary Locke, Pork-Barrel Spending, Oakland County, Michigan Republican Party, Unemployment, Hilda Solis, Jennifer Granholm, Sean Hannity, Michigan, Glenn Beck, Rust Belt, Recovery Act, Dennis Darnoi, Politics News

If the Republicans win the governorship here, the national media will trumpet that as an Important Trend. And a sign of the president's impending doom in 2012.

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Congress Porks Out On TARP: VOTE For The Worst Expenditures

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepoll, Diageo, Bailout, Burger King, Nascar, Sprint, Diageo TARP, Pork Barrel Spending, Stimulus, Business News

Congress just can't help itself with the pork. Last fall, with the elections looming and the politicians anxious to get back to their districts to c...

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John McCain and the Tale of the Earmarks

Joanne Bamberger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Punditmom, Pork Barrel Spending, John McCain, Joanne Bamberger, Earmarks, Federal Spending, Federal Budget, Politics News

Senator McCain (or his staff) is on a Twitter campaign to convince us that he has our budget interests at heart and that the Democrats are going on a wild earmark spree.

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