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Posts tagged "earmarks"

Voters may be fed up with Congress' pork

Many earmarkers now tagged for ouster I’ll believe it when I see it. Yet, here comes the Washington Times with a story noting: When it comes to the congressional variety, members of the powerful appropriations committees are finding that holding the nation’s purse strings — and the power the positions afford in doling out pork-barrel... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
May 18, 2010 at 4:29 pm
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The cost of Stupak's, Costello's and 9 other's votes for health care: $4.7 billion in earmarks

As soon as Rep. Bart Supak (D-Mich), Jerry Costello (D-Ill) and the others decided that DemCare was in the public interest, lots of people started asking: What did it to sell out their pro-life consciences to buy their votes?  Here’s a possible answer from the the Sunlight Foundation.  The day after the vote, the 11 put... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
March 26, 2010 at 3:42 pm
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Bobby Rush sells his vote for pork

So, this is the change that ya’ll voted for, the “different way of doing business” that Barack Obama promised to bring to Washington? After  the House this week passed the controversial “casp and trade” legislation that is supposed to reduce greenhouse gases (at great cost to consumers), Speaker Nancy Pelosi was scraping around for every... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
July 2, 2009 at 7:35 pm
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