When it started back in mid-July, I had no idea of the response our earmark hunting contest would get. But people showed up to this party! Earmarks have definitely touched a nerve across the country.
With the help of some good articles and blog posts, and plenty of word of mouth, people went to work chasing [...]
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.
Take a look at [...]
I’ve been poring over the earmark request data we collected in our big contest, and working to correlate it to the earmarks that made it into bills. It’s slow going, so far . . .
But the excitement level sure builds when you take a look at what the money’s going to!
Do you have your tickets [...]
ArsTechnica has a great write-up of our earmarks project and a top earmark hunter, Andi Osiek.
Back from vacation and digging out, I will be furiously working over the weekend to check the data we collected, flag earmarks that made it into bills, and award the prizes to the top earmark hunters in our contest.
Stay [...]
Our hard-working earmark hunters have put over 41,000 earmarks into the database, and our “wanted” list has NO more members listed on it!
There has been an amazing outpouring of effort to capture all this earmark data. Congratulations and thanks to all our earmark hunters!
Now, we’re not completely done yet . . . .
We may have [...]
The database has over 40,000 earmarks and the “wanted” list is dwindling fast. In fact, at this writing, there are only three representatives left. This will be the last contest update before we announce the winners.
Here’s how things will proceed. When it looks like we have all the earmark requests in the database, we’ll do [...]
Just five days ago, I was excited to report that fewer than 100 members of Congress and Senators remained on our “wanted” list, and that 30,000 earmarks were in the database.
Well, today we’ve crossed below 50 wanted representatives, and there are more than 35,000 earmarks in the database. This is a tribute to the [...]
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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 [...]
With more than 34,000 earmark requests in the database, our earmarks contest has been an extraordinary success. We owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to the earmark hunters who continue to whittle down our earmarks “wanted” list.
The earmark requests of less than 100 representatives remain to be collected, and we’ll soon be turning our attention [...]
Our earmark hunters continue to pour earmarks into the database. We have well over 30,000 earmarks collected so far, and we have reached another milestone: We have less than 100 members of Congress and senators to go! And more than half the states are complete!
If you haven’t entered any members’ earmarks, now is a good [...]