Earmarks

It's an odd question. One we have never heard asked, nor discussed. It came to us as we were researching a completely different issue. Do you know the answer? Did you know, as an example, that Rep. Maurice Hinchey of the 22nd Congressional Distric…

Facing a midnight deadline to avoid a government shutdown, Congress passed a bill Tuesday that will fund the Federal Government through March 4. The bill, which also will freeze federal salaries for two years, narrowly passed the House, 193 to …

They have demonstrated that they both are not Conservatives when it comes to their own state's Political Issues. For Chambliss, it seems to be Military Dominated Earmarks in the total sum of $2,225 Billion Dollars between 2008 and 2010. There are …

Below is a letter to Taxpayers from a report titled ‘School House Pork’, September 2010 by Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn, M.D., a member of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.  The U.S. Constitution provides no role…

So why Compromise now, pending full resurrection? That they sprang from their desks to see what was the matter. Tore open the shutters — ’twas a Tea Party bash! No more credit from China! Sell “Government Motors”! No more C…

Sen. Tom Coburn's (R-Okla.) accused the government of $11.5 billion in waste this past year in his annual "Wastebook" report released Monday. Coburn, a longtime fiscal hawk, detailed 100 spending projects from the past year that he said constit…

The political firestorm over the billions in earmark requests that led to the scrapping of the $1.1 Trillion omnibus spending measure offers a window into a debate that's likely to dominate any number of hotly contested races in 2012. Charges o…

WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden says President Barack Obama would sign a congressional spending measure even if contains lawmakers’ pet projects. Biden says the president will look at the proportion of those projects — kno…