Republican Senator porkers (earmarks) in the omnibus bill

Ding Dong the 1,924 Page Omnibus Spending Bill Is Dead Harry Reid Pulls Bill
V IS FOR VICTORY … VICTORY FOR WE THE PEOPLE!!! America, tonight you just witnessed the power of the people and the aftermath of the political Tsunami and avalanche of the 2010 Midterm Election. Elections have consequences. Democrats and those Republicans who did not quite get the message, finally did over the last couple days as WE THE PEOPLE made their outraged voices heard and along with Senators Jim DeMint, Mitch McConnell and John McCain … Reid’s bill is toast. As state...

Sen. GOP Leader Kills Omnibus Bill
Sen. GOP Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has long been known as an effective whip, and Thursday night he showed his prowess as he effectively stripped Democrats of the GOP votes needed to pass the $1.2 Trillion omnibus spending bill, killing the measure for good. A visibly frustrated and angry Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, lashed out, saying that he had nine GOP senators supporting the measure, but that suddenly the support evaporated. "This action taken by my friends on other si...

Lawmakers dump $1.3T spending bill
WASHINGTON - Democrats controlling the Senate yesterday abandoned a huge catchall spending measure combining nearly $1.3 Trillion worth of unfinished Budget work, including another $158 billion for Military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The 1,924-page bill collapsed of its own weight after an outcry from Conservatives - including Massachusetts Republican Sen. Scott Brown - who complained it was stuffed with more than $8 billion in homestate pet projects known as Earmarks and w...

A Detailed List of Earmarks in The Omnibus Spending Bill
Pork, pork, pork. It's enough pork to make a Southside Chicago BBQ joint greasy with envy. Yes, it's a bacchanalia of pork spending and Earmarks in the Omnibus spending bill, for sure, and we now have the database to prove it. Senator Tom Coburn has posted a Google Spreadsheet data base document on line and there you can see how much the earmark costs us, where it is going, and which of our congressmen asked for the earmark. There's One million, five hundred eighteen thousand dollars for animal ...

A Detailed List of Earmarks in The Omnibus Spending Bill
Pork, pork, pork. It’s enough pork to make a Southside Chicago BBQ joint greasy with envy. Yes, it’s a bacchanalia of pork spending and Earmarks in the Omnibus spending bill, for sure, and we now have the database to prove it. Senator Tom Coburn has posted a Google Spreadsheet data base document on line and there you can see how much the earmark costs us, where it is going, and which of our congressmen asked for the earmark. There’s One million, five hundred eighteen thousand d...

Nelson requests 43 earmarks in Senate omnibus bill
The Senate is considering a $1.1 Trillion omnibus bill — essentially a bill appropriating funding for the government for next year that contains more than 6,000 Earmarks totaling $8 billion. And Florida has its share. Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson — who voted for a Moratorium on Earmarks that did not pass — earmarked $2.4 million for two projects for Cape Canaveral and $1 million for Cooperative Grouper-Snapper Fisheries Data Collection for the Florida Fish and Wildlife...

Coburn's 'Wiki-earmarks' service highlights omnibus pork
Sen. Tom Coburn, R-OK, has performed a public service by compiling and posting on his official web site a Spreadsheet containing information and data about all of the more than 6,600 Earmarks requested by Democrats and Republicans for the $1.2 Trillion Omnibus Spending bill. That's the massive last-minute banzai bill concocted by Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Daniel Inouye, D-HI, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made sure the 111th Congress fa...

Spending bill racks up $2 billion in earmarks
Senate leaders and top appropriators from both parties racked up more than $2.2 billion in Earmarks in the massive omnibus spending bill that Democrats are pushing to enact in the final days of the 111th Congress. According to a Politico analysis of an earmark database compiled by Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) racked up $252 million, Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) snagged another $145 million, Democratic Conference Vice Chairman Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) scor...

Inhofe Earmarks $44.7M in End-of-Year Omnibus
As the Democrats try to pass an end-of-year Omnibus spending bill, Senators are larding up the bloated, $1.1 Trillion dollar measure with Earmarks. Sen. Tom Coburn's office has done a great job of exposing the vast amount of earmarks in the bill (over 6,700 earmarks) - with a database viewable here. As usual, there is a great deal of difference between Oklahoma's two Republican senators. Dr. Coburn requested zero earmarks, while Sen. Inhofe's name appears on 42 separate Earmarks. Inhofe's earmar...

GOP Earmark Ban Supporters Claiming Hundreds Of Earmarks
WASHINGTON — More than two dozen senators – most of them Republicans – put hundreds of homestate projects in the $1.3 Trillion bill to fund the Federal Government even though they recently voted to ban so-called Earmarks. The effort to pass the 1,924-page bill collapsed Thursday night after complaints by Conservatives over its complexity and size and the relatively few days to be devoted to debating its merits. Anti-spending Tea Party Activists were angry, too, especially sin...

Republican senators say they'll vote against their own earmarks
The port city of Pascagoula on Mississippi's Gulf Coast wants to build a beach promenade, with new benches, lush landscaping and a lighted pathway for joggers, cyclists and dog walkers. This Story Republican senators say they'll vote against their own Earmarks West Wing Briefing: Poll on tax deal hints Obama still hasn't sold public Pimco's Kashkari Says No `Hard Choices' Made in Tax Plan Recession pushed down tax 'burden' Declining revenue Senate spending bill contains thousands of Earmarks ...

Congress: Reaching the finish line
The New York Times: "The Senate on Wednesday approved the $858 billion tax plan negotiated by the White House and Republican leaders, and House Democrats said they expected to pass the bill on Thursday after a final, and seemingly futile, effort to change a provision that benefits wealthy estates." Roll Call on Speaker Nancy Pelosi appearing to sit on the sidelines of the tax debate: “Pelosi has never been one to shy away from a fight. But she appears to have made the calculation that sel...

If necessary, shut down the lame duck over omnibus bill
The top headline from the Drudge Report this morning described the $1.27 Trillion 1,924 page omnibus spending bill Majority Leader Harry Reid introduced as one last feast.  Once you read some of the details though, you will probably describe this in far more vulgar terms. The new omnibus bill contains about $8 billion worth of Earmarks. In the Commerce, Justice, Science appropriations bill, for example, there is a $6,000,000 earmark for the Mississippi Polymer Institute at the University of...

Senate Dem leader drops nearly $1.3T spending bill
WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrats controlling the Senate abandoned on Thursday a huge catchall spending measure combining nearly $1.3 Trillion worth of unfinished Budget work, including another $158 billion for Military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The 1,924-page bill collapsed of its own weight after an outcry from Conservatives who complained it was stuffed with more than $8 billion in homestate pet projects known as Earmarks and wrapped together 12 bills into a single foot-tall piece of leg...

Harry Reid Pulls Omnibus, But Announces Votes On DADT & DREAM Act
WASHINGTON -- Faced with the prospects of having to literally read the full 1924 pages of an omnibus spending bill, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) chose on Thursday night to pull the measure in favor of a continuing resolution to keep government funding. Republicans, presented with the news, could barely hide their Glee. "Did we just win?" asked newly elected Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), a rhetorical question that seemed to engender sharp rebukes from Democrats. Kirk was directing his ...

Angry Reid pulls $1.1T omnibus spending bill
Senate Democrats conceded defeat Thursday and pulled their $1.1 Trillion spending bill loaded with Earmarks from the chamber floor, stymied by Republicans who unified to block the massive bill in the final days of a contentious session of Congress. Angered at what happened, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, said nine Republicans, who had earlier promised to vote for the bill, had withdrawn their support in the last 24 hours. And he berated fellow lawmakers for ceding spending a...

A Victory for the Tea Party, But a Long Road Remains
Once mocked as angry Racist mobs and "Astroturf," the tea parties made their presence known in last month's Midterm Elections. Tonight, they claimed their first genuine legislative victory when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid pulled the $1.2 Trillion omnibus bill with thousands of Earmarks, conceding he didn't have the votes to pass it. The reason he didn't have the votes to pass it was was no doubt a result of the pressure put on Republicans by Tea Party Activists who have made it political...

Reid Abandons Omnibus Bill Amid GOP Opposition
ABC News’ Matthew Jaffe reports: With Senate Republicans uniting against a massive $1.1 Trillion omnibus spending bill and threatening to demand a time-consuming oral reading of the 1,924-page measure, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid tonight elected to ditch the Controversial bill. In recent days, Republicans blasted the $8.3 billion of Earmarks in the measure and vowed to force an oral reading of it on the Senate floor. That process could have taken up to 50 hours, sucking up precious ti...

Senate Dem leader drops nearly $1.3 trillion spending bill
WASHINGTON -- Democrats controlling the Senate abandoned Thursday a huge catchall spending measure combining nearly $1.3 Trillion worth of unfinished Budget work, including another $158 billion for Military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The 1,924-page bill collapsed of its own weight after an outcry from Conservatives, who complained it was stuffed with more than $8 billion in home state pet projects known as Earmarks. Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., gave up on the bill after several...

Reid Drops Omnibus Spending Bill
(NewsCore) - In a surprise move, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced on the Senate floor Thursday that he does not have the necessary votes to file for Cloture on a $1.1 Trillion omnibus spending bill and will therefore not bring it to the Senate floor for a vote. Reid said nine Republicans, who he refused to name, had previously assured him of their support for the bill but had walked away from it in the last few days. Instead, Reid said he will now work with Senate Minority Le...

GOP Filibusters Reid's $1.1 Trillion Omnibus Bill
The Senate GOP put a stop to Harry Reid's last minute 1,924 page, $1.1 (or $1.2) Trillion omnibus bill with a Filibuster that Reid could not get 60 votes to overcome. There were $8 billion in Earmarks, some from the very Republicans that later agreed to a ban of Earmarks, which liberals and Reid continue to neglect to mention when they claim "Republicans have them in the bill too." Fox Reports: Sen. GOP Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has long been known as an effective whip, and Thursday night...

BREAKING: Ding Dong The Swine Bill's Dead/Reid Pulls Omnibus
Just a half-hour ago, Harry Reid took the Senate floor and started a rambling Speech about how he supports the Constitution and how women and little babies would have a lousy life should the Senate Swine Omnibus bill not pass, that's when he sprung the Christmas surprise. He is pulling the bill and will work on a short term continuing resolution that will fund the government till the new Congress convenes. Reid no longer has the votes. I have to tell you if I was John Boehner I would have star...

Democrats abruptly drop spending fight
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats abruptly abandoned a fight over spending on Thursday and said they would instead extend government funding on a temporary basis, a move that gives Republicans a greater chance to enact the deep cuts they have promised. The surprise agreement looked likely to end a high-stakes game of chicken that could have led to a shutdown of wide swaths of the government if Congress had not agreed on a spending bill by Saturday night. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said nin...

Democrats abruptly drop spending fight
By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON | Thu Dec 16, 2010 9:42pm EST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats abruptly abandoned a fight over spending on Thursday and said they would instead extend government funding on a temporary basis, a move that gives Republicans a greater chance to enact the deep cuts they have promised. The surprise agreement looked likely to end a high-stakes game of chicken that could have led to a shutdown of wide swaths of the government if Congress had not agreed on a spending bill ...

'A 1,924 Page Bill Just Died,' As Democrats Concede Budget Battle to GOP
Harry Reid holds a copy of the US Constitution while speaking to reporters Thursday afternoon. After months of Bipartisan negotiations, Majority Leader Harry Reid conceded Thursday night that he lacked the votes to bring up the $1.1 Trillion spending bill designed to fund the Federal Government for the rest of the current Fiscal Year, after nine GOP members suddenly reneged on their pledges to vote for it. As a result, Reid and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell are now negotiating the terms...