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Pork Barrel Spending

Why Your Representatives Should Make You Mad as Hell

John W. Whitehead | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

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
John W. Whitehead

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 09.03.2009 | New York

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 08.21.2009 | Business

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 08.17.2009 | Politics

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
Joe Cirincione

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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Congress Porks Out On TARP: VOTE For The Worst Expenditures

Posted 07.27.2009 | Business

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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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How Obama Will Keep Michigan Blue in 2010

Susan J. Demas | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics

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
Susan J. Demas

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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John McCain and the Tale of the Earmarks

Joanne Bamberger | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics

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

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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Pssst, They're Stealing from You. Again.

John W. Whitehead | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pork Barrel Spending, Omnibus, Earmarks, Stimulus Earmarks, Pork-Barrel-Spending, Stimulus Package, Stimulus-Package-Earmarks, Spending Bill Earmarks, Omnibus Spending Bill, Pork, Spending-Bill-Earmarks, Politics News
John W. Whitehead

Despite our president's pledge to ban all earmarks, the Omnibus spending bill is loaded with ridiculous, wasteful projects that have absolutely nothing to do with keeping the federal government operating.

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Media Focus On Earmarks Allows Omnibus Opponents To Control Debate

Media Matters | Posted 04.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Meet the Press, John McCain, Earmarks, David Gregory, Appropriations, Omnibus Spending Bill, Pork Barrel Spending, Pork, Omnibus Earmarks, Politics News

Numerous media outlets have devoted significant coverage to the earmarks contained in the pending omnibus appropriations bill, even though, according ...

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McCain Talks 'Pork,' Voters Think 'Bush!'

Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Presidential Debates, Economic Crisis, Debt, Federal Budget Deficit, George W. Bush, Government Spending, Pork Barrel Spending, Politics News
Jeffrey Feldman

Nowadays, when Americans think about profligate spending, they do not think about Democrats. Instead, when voters talk about grossly excessive government spending, they talk about Bush.

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Flashback: Steve Carrell Nails McCain On Pork-Barrelling

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 10.11.2008 | Media

Read More: John McCain, Daily Show, Pork Barrel, John McCain Earmarks, Jon Stewart, Steve Carrell, Pork Barrel Spending, Sarah Palin, Steve Carell, Media News

Back when the media was allowed to question him, a certain sharp-eyed journalist caught McCain on not always being so maverickly anti-earmark.

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Proposed Obama Ad: "Make Them Famous"

Greg Saunders | Posted 10.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Pork Barrel Spending, John McCain, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Politics News
Greg Saunders

The consensus seems to be that Obama needs to stop playing defense, define Sarah Palin, and take the fight back to John McCain. These seem like contradictory goals, but here's a suggestion for an ad.

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Sarah Palin: Resuscitating the Fourth Estate

Cindy Handler | Posted 10.09.2008 | Media

Read More: Democrats 2008, John McCain, GOP Convention, Abortion Rights, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Rick Davis, Palin Voting Record, Pork Barrel Spending, Acceptance Speech, Censorship, Sex Education, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin Reaction, Media News
Cindy Handler

There's been a shocking amount of credulousness in the media's willingness to swallow what the administration feeds them, without investigating original sources first to see if it's true.

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The Real Sarah Palin Scandal

Robert Silvers | Posted 10.02.2008 | Home

Read More: John McCain, Pork Barrel, Earmarks, Bridge to Nowhere, Palin Bridge to Nowhere, Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska, Pork Barrel Spending, Alaska, Pork, Home News
Robert Silvers

The real scandal for John McCain's V.P.-to-be is that Palin has exhibited a voracious appetite for the very congressional earmarks and pork barrel spending that John McCain has made a signature issue of trying to stamp out.

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Bipartisanship Thrives -- At Least When it Comes to Earmarks

Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Taxes, Pork Barrel Spending, Congress, Earmarks, Federal Budget, Washington Post, Bipartisanship, Politics News
Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson

Earmarks are back on the scene. Despite repeated attempts to kill the industry, or at least weaken it, the current House defense authorization bill contains almost $10 billion dollars of red ink.

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GOP Reelection Strategy: Pork Barrel Spending

Washington Post | Chris Cillizza And Ben Pershing | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics

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Faced with one of the worst national political environments in modern political history, Republican incumbents are turning to a tried-and-true approac...

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Clinton Earmarks Land Her In Top Ten In Senate

Washington Post | Paul Kane | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hillary Clinton Earmarks, Obama Pork, Obama Earmarks, Hillary Clinton, Pork Barrel Spending, 2008 Election, Clinton Pork, McCain Earmarks, Barack Obama, Politics News

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton helped secure more than $340 million worth of home-state projects in last year's spending bills, placing her among the top...

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Even Robert Novak Admits: GOP Still Loves Pork

Washington Post | Robert Novak | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Republicans Pork, Republicans Love Pork, Gop, Pork Barrel Spending, Gop Pork, Republicans Spending, Gop Spending, Republicans, Politics News

When House Republicans convene behind closed doors today at the Greenbrier resort in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., they have a chance to make two bold...

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