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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “earmarks”

• Pocketbook Economics Meets the College Koozie

  
  Caffeinated Thoughts — Authority: 142
  When my husband and I were first married we were broke. Out of pure necessity we lived on a budget commonly referred to as the envelope system . Personal Money Management expert, Dave Ramsey is a big proponent of this budgetary method. The idea is that upon payday the individual puts cash into envelopes ...
  19 hours ago

• Stimulus grantees cited for poor oversight of federal funds

  
  Real Time Investigations with Bill Allison and Anupama Narayanswamy — Authority: 413
  The Carson City Airport Authority, which has benefited in the last four years from more than $13 million in federal funds, is now slated to receive another $9.6 million in stimulus money, even though an independent auditor cited problems earlier this year with how it manages its federal grants. The airport ...
  23 hours ago

• Wardell Breaks With Pack on Earmarks

  
  KY3 Political Notebook — Authority: 528
  The most recent Republican candidate to enter the 7th District Congressional primary is also the first to openly defend the federal earmarking process. Michael Wardell said he would not take a pledge to refuse all earmarks if elected to Congress and chastised his GOP rivals for "grandstanding" on the issue. "The ...
  2 days ago

• SeniorCare under Obama-Pelosi-Reid Healthcare

  
  A Good Choice . . . — Authority: 138
  Hat tip to T.D. for sending the following information letting us in on President Barry Soetoro a/k/a Barack Obama , House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid s future Social Security and healthcare plans for our senior citizens. Social Security For the first time in ...
  3 days ago

• How did we get to where we are?

  
  KEN MOYES' Weblog — Authority: 104
  Whatever happened to the national goals of a Strong National Defense, Fiscal Responsibility, Energy Independence, Free Market Solutions, and Individual Liberty? Why have we moved 180 degrees from this goal — a goal that made this country great?
  3 days ago

• Louisiana Purchase Landrieu Blames ABC Report of $100 Million Buyoff on Very Partisan Republican Bloggers

  
  Jeff Poor's blog — Authority: 676
  Whats $100 million of taxpayer money between a few U.S. Senators? After reports surfaced of $100 million for Louisiana was added to the Senates health care reform legislation, originally from ABC News , and subsequently commented upon by prominent lefties, like U.S. News and World Reports Bonnie Erbe as my ...
  4 days ago

• Capuano Makes Intentions Clear

  
  The Swine Line — Authority: 131
  Rep. Michael Capuano (D-Mass.), one of four Democrats currently vying for the late Edward Kennedy’s Massachusetts Senate seat (the others being state Attorney General Martha Coakley, City Year co-founder Alan Khazei, and Boston Celtics co-owner Stephen Pagliuca), recently made waves with the declaration of his ...
  4 days ago

• Open Notebook: Flaws in Lobbying Disclosure 2

  
  Real Time Investigations with Bill Allison and Anupama Narayanswamy — Authority: 413
  In 2008, according to a federal disclosure form that’s available online from the Labor Department, the national headquarters of the Service Employees International Union spent $67 million on political activities and lobbying. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce files an annual report with the Internal Revenue Service that ...
  5 days ago

• Long Takes Earmark Pledge

  
  KY3 Political Notebook — Authority: 528
  7th District Congressional candidate Billy Long signed a pledge with FreedomWorks to not support earmarking if elected to the U.S. House next year. "So many politicians have a habit of breaking their word, telling their constituents one thing while doing another. They know that nobody will hold them ...
  5 days ago

• Don’t Worry, Be Happy – Yea Right!

  
  The Swine Line — Authority: 131
  Remember than annoying song in the 1980’s?  It was over played and people just got sick of it  In fact, Bobby McFerrin, the artist who wrote and performed the song (and made millions off of it) now refuses to ever sing it again. Now, Representative Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) wants to have a day of “no ...
  6 days ago

• Five Common-Sense Steps to Change a Broken Congress

  
  Big Government — Authority: 813
  The American people have had it with “business as usual” in Congress.  They are fed up with practices such as tucking special-interest provisions into bills behind closed doors, secretly changing bills without a vote, and passing bills no one has read.  This has happened for far too long, but never before has ...
  1 week ago

• Byrd is the Word

  
  The Swine Line — Authority: 131
  At midnight last night Senator Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.) became the longest serving  member of Congress.  According to a November 18  Associated Press article: Setting records is old news to the white-maned Democratic lawmaker. Since June 12, 2006, Byrd has been the longest-serving senator and later that year he ...
  1 week ago

• Pork Report November 17, 2009: Post Office Edition

  
  Big Government — Authority: 813
  The U.S. Postal Service lost $3.8 billion last year Winery receives federal stimulus grant Musicians more effective communicating in noisy environments than non-musicians , according to findings of a National Science Foundation study Only 20 percent of Americans hold positive view of government Research ...
  1 week ago

• Open Notebook: Flaws in Lobbying Disclosure

  
  Real Time Investigations with Bill Allison and Anupama Narayanswamy — Authority: 413
  Yesterday, Hot Air’s Ed Morrissey wrote that two conservative groups are charging that Andrew Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union, should have registered (or re-registered) as a lobbyist. They’re citing White House visitor logs (Stern was the most frequent visitor in the fist batch of ...
  1 week ago

• Interview with Iowa Third Congressional District Candidate: Dave Funk

  
  Caffeinated Thoughts — Authority: 142
  Yesterday I had the opportunity to meet with Dave Funk at the new Smokey Row in Des Moines.  Dave is one of the GOP candidates for Iowa’s Third Congressional District seat held by Congressman Leonard Boswell.  Below is his bio shamelessly stolen from his website : Known as Captain Dave by many, his aviation ...
  1 week ago

• Editorial In USA Today Tackles House Ethics Inquiry Into Defense Contracts And The Role Of Campaign Cash

  
  Public Campaign Action Fund blogs — Authority: 117
  USA Today editorialized today on the House ethics inquiry into defense appropriations and the appearance of a correlation between campaign cash and the awarding of defense contracts and call for public financing of elections as a remedy for perceived undue special interest influence. read more
  1 week ago

• U.S. PIRG Report Shows Link Between Transportation Earmarks and Campaign Giving

  
  Public Campaign Action Fund blogs — Authority: 117
  A new report from U.S. PIRG looks at the connection between transportation earmarks and campaign contributions, as reported in the N.Y. Times. read more
  1 week ago

• How About Hypocrisy Limits?

  
  HYSTERICAL RAISINS — Authority: 469
  In another installment of Rethuglicans not having a new idea in decades, the Raisin brings you the latest warmed-up same-old, same-old. Washington ( CNN ) — A handful of Republican senators have proposed a constitutional amendment to limit how long a person may serve in Congress. Currently, there are no term ...
  1 week ago

• The Swift Hand of the Senate Ethics Committee

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 763
  In January of 2008, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed a complaint with the Senate Ethics Committee against Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.). CREW wondered if a $2 million earmark Landrieu had showered on a children’s literacy company wasn’t inspired by a $30,000 fundraiser the company had ...
  1 week ago

• U.S. economy 2009

  
  Wednesday-Night — Authority: 136
  NYT  Financial crisis one year later ;  Joseph Cassano, former head of A.I.G.’s Financial Products unit: The Man Who Crashed the World ; Reuters special coverage Wall Street pay Bank Lending Down Despite Massive Bailouts And Increasing Regulations While financial institutions including Citigroup Inc. and ...
  2 weeks ago

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