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Seen at the LA Times: Getting into the holiday spirit, the House of Representatives on Thursday approved a spending bill loaded with goodies for the folks back home. Trails for Monterey Bay. An arts pavilion for Mississippi. Bus shelters for Bellflower. In all, the bill contains 5,224 earmarks costing about $3.9 billion, according to Taxpayers for Common Sense, [...] 
Taxpayers for Common Sense have posted a spreadsheet listing the 9286 earmark provisions in the omnibus spending bill moving through the Senate. In an article reporting on McCain’s failed attempt to block the earmarks, the New York Times relayed tweets from Senator McCain listing some of the more notable provisions, including: $285,000 for the Discovery Center [...] 
KagroX at Daily Kos has been posting a summary of the Senate debate on their version of the bailout bill. A few of the items found tucked into the bill include: Page 279 — Rum excise tax to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands Page 280 — Mine rescue / mine safety Page 290 — Motorsports racing track facility Page [...] 
I posted earlier about thinking I heard a veiled reference to signing statements in the State of the Union address. Looking through the text of the speech, I appear to have been in error: The people’s trust in their government is undermined by congressional earmarks, special interest projects that are often snuck in at the last [...]
Was it me, or was the State of the Union speech rather uninspiring, if not boring? Granted, the talk on stopping earmarks sounded interesting and promising…although his veiled promise to use signing statements as part of his strategy to stop them sounded like an ominous way to achieve back-door legitimization of his favorite trick. As for the [...] |
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