All Posts Tagged With: "earmarks"
Senate Blocks GOP Filibuster
“The Senate early Friday headed off a Republican filibuster on the final spending bill of the year, clearing the way both for the bill’s passage and for the final end-game on a health care bill. Republicans had tried to drag out the debate on the $636.3 billion 2010 defense spending bill as a way of [...]
18Dec2009 | Mike Van Winkle | 0 comments | ContinuedDog Bites Man
President Barack Obama’s ban on earmarks in the $825 billion economic stimulus bill doesn’t mean interest groups, lobbyists and lawmakers won’t be able to funnel money to pet projects.They’re just working around it — and perhaps inadvertently making the process more secretive….The result, as The Associated Press learned in interviews with more than a dozen [...]
27Jan2009 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedLeviathan on the Right: How Big-Government Conservatism Brought Down the Republican Revolution
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1Mar2007 | FEE Admin | 1 comment | ContinuedAre Highways Subsidized?
I have always loved trains. I am an ardent cyclist, and I never particularly liked automobiles. So I always took it for granted that the reason most Americans drive and passenger trains have nearly disappeared is that our highways are unfairly subsidized. I felt particularly incensed that the Interstate Highway System, which took business from [...]
1Nov2006 | Randal OToole | 8 comments | ContinuedLegal Plunder Mislabeled “Defense”
Arnaud de Borchgrave of United Press International has been reporting on national intelligence matters for many years. In a recent dispatch he wrote that “[s]ome 15,300 earmarks in the U.S. defense budget, up 1,300 percent in the 21st century, are so many pork projects for lawmakers’ constituencies that have nothing to do with defense.” That [...]
1May2006 | Sheldon Richman | 1 comment | ContinuedFunding Science in America: Congress, Universities, and the Politics of the Academic Pork Barrel
Taxpayer funding of science in America is pretty meager compared to total federal spending. But legislators and interest groups intent on grabbing tax dollars for themselves don’t care whether the budget item is great or small. In recent years, federal funding for scientific research has become a prime target of the wastrels, and this pottage [...]
1Nov2000 | Jack Sommer | 0 comments | Continued-
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