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Hey Earmark Hunters!

It looks like some of Rep. Tom Latham’s ag earmarks are not in the database.

Update: Got ‘em!

It’s one of those awful scanned PDFs, but if you can get the missing ones in . . . .

Here are the earmarks we have for him, and you can always download the whole dataset here.

Update: Same goes for Roscoe Bartlett. His non-defense earmarks aren’t in the database yet.

Update: Frank Kratovil’s earmarks are not in the database—the entries in the database are not earmarks! (We’ll be taking care of that.)

Update: About 25 of Rep. Jim McDermott’s earmarks seem to be missing from the database. I’m at a loss to figure out which ones.

Update: Missing from our collection of Tim Holden earmarks: the second half of his ten Agriculture earmarks—that is, 6-10, starting at the bottom of page 2—and the first, fourth, and fifth of his Interior earmarks. Scanned PDFs—oh joy.

Update: It looks like Senator Patty Murray’s transportation earmarks didn’t make it in the database.

Update: We seem to have mostly missed Michigan’s senators. For Carl Levin, we have only his Ag earmarks. For Debbie Stabenow (scroll to the bottom of the page), we have just ten of her Ag earmarks. The two submitted some of their requests jointly, so open up two windows and enter the data for both at the same time!

Update: Senator Ben Cardin published two lists of earmarks a short list and a full list. It looks like we’ve only got the earmarks from the short list, and we need the full list.

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Visitor Comments for Hey Earmark Hunters! RSS 2.0

ArtsyAndi

I typed these in myself… and from looking at the dataset, they are in there… ???

ArtsyAndi

Bartlett is done now too.

ArtsyAndi

Kratovil’s earmarks are done too now.

Jim Harper

Thank you, Andi. I don’t know how I got confused about the Latham earmarks. There was one missing – Dairy Education – and somehow I didn’t see any of the others from his ag page.

Andi

Tim Holden’s are completed now.

Andi

McDermott’s are complete

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