WashingtonWatch.com Digest – August 24, 2009
Posted by Jim Harper
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34,000 Earmarks In the Database
Our earmarks contest has now collected a whooping 34,000 earmark requests! Read the latest in a WashingtonWatch.com blog post called Earmarks Contest Update [...]
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Earmark Zero: The Durham Museum Photo Archive Project
Posted by Jim Harper
Our earmarks database has over 33,000 earmark requests in it, and a small crew of transparency heroes are working diligently to capture them all. The list of “wanted” members and senators is dwindling.
The next step will be tagging the thousands of earmarks that have made it into the appropriations bills now being considered in Congress. [...]
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