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Showing posts with label earmarks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label earmarks. Show all posts
Thursday, August 24, 2023

Congressional budget negotiators wrangle over water spending

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Budget negotiators are working on a congressional spending bill compromise to avoid an Oct. 1 government shutdown; however, the dollars aime...
Thursday, December 16, 2010

Looking for your earmark? Here's the request list

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Does the big, catch-all spending bill hanging fire in Congress have an earmark for your community or region? You can get an idea by download...
Friday, August 13, 2010

Paul downplays E. Ky. drug problem, draws fire

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After being taken to task recently for comments on farm subsidies and mine safety , Kentucky Republican Senate nominee Rand Paul has again ...
Friday, July 23, 2010

Milk security system among projects stemming from rural Ky. congressman's hometown earmarks

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A University of Kentucky food engineer stands to benefit from the investment in homeland security as his high-tech "milk-transport sec...
Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Utah town prefers U.S. 'pork' to Mormon crickets

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Earmark spending in the $410 billion ominbus spending bill passed last week has been strongly criticized by members of both parties. But in ...
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Friday, March 13, 2009

Congressional earmarks too much of a good thing?

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Congressional earmarks have received much unfavorable attention lately, including some primarily rural ones in a ' 10 porkiest ' lis...
Tuesday, March 10, 2009

McCain's '10 porkiest' earmarks are mostly rural

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Earmarks are coming under fresh fire, with Congress debating an omnibus spending bill to fund much of the government for the fiscal year end...
Sunday, July 20, 2008

Metro papers' cutbacks hurt coverage of Congress; smaller news outlets need to pick up the slack

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As more metropolitan newspapers cut back on regional reporting, including Washington bureau reporters, smaller news outlets must bear more o...
Tuesday, June 17, 2008

McCain probably considering one-term pledge, Sen. Sam Brownback tells National Rural Assembly

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Presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain is probably thinking about announcing that he would serve only one term if elected, ...
Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Congressional earmarks going through with little coverage, Novak says

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Conservative political columnist Robert Novak writes in the latest Evans-Novak Political Report that the professed transparency of House De...