Biden, Obama linked to corrupt earmarking
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008Go figure, right? From the WaPo:
Sen. Barack Obama sought more than $3.4 million in congressional earmarks for clients of the lobbyist son of his Democratic running mate, Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware, records show. Obama succeeded in getting $192,000 for one of the clients, St. Xavier University in suburban Chicago.
Elected officials who have sworn off earmarks
Friday, March 7th, 2008The Club for Growth reports:
Shortly after joining Congress in 2000, Rep. Jeff Flake swore off earmarks forever. Others have followed. GOP Leader John Boehner was arguably the first among current House members. He shunned earmarks way back in 1990 (who said accepting earmarks was necessary for getting re-elected?). And with the earmark crisis reaching a […]
End Corruption. Stop Earmarks. Sign the Petition
Thursday, February 28th, 2008If ever a place needed change, it’s Washington, where the culture of corruption continues to run rampant. The new majority continues to be satisfied with nothing less than business as usual. They don’t understand that Americans have completely lost faith in their elected officials.
It is time to turn things around.
END CORRCUPTION. FIGHT FOR CHANGE. […]
House Republicans agree to “self-imposed” earmark reform
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008House Democrats promised earmark reform, but have failed to act out of self interest and power preservation - the same reasons Republicans weren’t interested in earmark reform..
However, the Democrats’ inaction has not prevented House Republicans (now in the minority and interested in reforming earmarks) from enacting modest, gradual and “self-imposed” reform on themselves.
Rep. Boehner put […]
Butcher Chronicles: Coburn to “put hold” on appropriation “changes”
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007Oklahoma Republican Senator Tom Coburn is calling for an investigation into a controversial last-minute changing of an earmark requested by Alaska Republican Congressman Don Young — who was at that time the chairman of the House transportation committee.
Coburn says he will object to the passage of any “technical corrections” to the 2005 transportation bill […]
Earmarkers
Saturday, December 1st, 2007A recent story by CBS chronicled this year’s biggest earmarkers measured in terms of dollars allocated.
The video is not embed-able, but please view the story here.
The Senate’s top 10 earmarkers included four Republican with earmarks totaling near $1.75 billion. The House’s top 10 earmarkers also included four Republicans with earmarks totaling $416 […]
Activism Alert: End the Corruption, Sign the Earmark Pledge
Thursday, November 8th, 2007The conservative, but non-partisan, Club For Growth recently released is RePork Card grading Congressman on their efforts to root out government waste from Washington. Groups like Club for Growth are making a serious and concerted effort to end the use of the federal buget as a campaign tool to reward supporters and attract future […]
Update: Flower Power Pork: Butcher seeks to force vote to use earmark $ on children’s health care
Thursday, October 18th, 2007More egregious earmarks are coming to light in the Senate Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill. The latest is an earmark from New York Sens. Schumer and Clinton, which would provide $1 million for a museum to commemorate the Woodstock festival. Robert Novak reports on the story today.
Addendum: From a Roll Call article:
Meanwhile, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) […]
Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill laden with earmarks
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007Democrats were supposed to clean up the earmarking process, but sadly it is just more of the same - unjustifiable earmarks inserted into spending bill for political purposes. It seems that Democrats are as likely as Republicans to use the federal budget as a campaign tool.
Take for example, a $500,000 earmark was inserted into […]
The Butcher seeks to smoke out earmarks in appropriations bills
Thursday, October 4th, 2007According to Congressional Quarterly, Senator Tom Coburn, R-Okla., will offer several amendments “that will force senators to make choices between questionable earmarks and vital priorities.”
This is not the first Tom Coburn has made such a legislative manuever. He did the same thing on the Transportation bill, trying to force Senators into the uncomfortable choice […]
