Since the wrap-up of our earmark hunting contest, we have been linking the 40,000+ earmark requests to the earmarks that made it into bills.
It’s a time-consuming and imperfect process, but we have done pretty much all of them in the Commerce-Justice-Science spending bill, which goes to the Senate floor this week.
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When is nothing happening newsworthy? How about when Congress spends thousands of dollars per U.S. family without oversight.
With just over two weeks to go before the beginning of the new fiscal year October 1st, neither the House or the Senate have introduced all the annual spending bills, and none have passed into law.
These are [...]
The back story here is an obnoxious email that a PR flack at the Small Business Administration sent me.
In, like, 53-point italics, it said I should “call to interview the award winners and discuss the event.” I didn’t know what the event was – the subject line of the email was: “SBA Press Release:” – [...]