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Earmarks Not the Big Problem, Blackburn Says, December 22, 2006
Today we are debating a federal spending issue - whether earmarks and special project funding ought to be banned and that money turned over to agency bureaucrats to spend. Some argue that giving bureaucrats control and eliminating all earmarks would...
Pig Out, July 26, 2006
The Club for Growth has compiled a record of how each member of the U.S. House of Representatives voted on the 19 anti-pork amendments presented by Rep. Jeff Flake. So, how did your Tennessee Congressmen do? Well, two of them...
The Pork Pigs, May 01, 2006
Three Tennessee congressman have released complete lists of the pork requests they're trying to stuff into the federal budget, costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. While the congressman deserve praise for their openness, their complicity in driving federal spending...
Bridge to Nowhere Defunded, November 16, 2005
By Adam Groves Blake Wylie reports that the so-called "Bridge to Nowhere" has been defunded. In the strange bedfellows category, the stripped earmarks was made possible by a joint effort against the bridge between the Club for Growth and the...
Pork Justifies More Pork, November 03, 2005
From a reader's email:Today's Wall Street Journal contains a letter from Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska rebutting an article or editorial on the "Bridge to Nowhere." She lays out the best case possible, citing the natural resources to be developed...
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