The late Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens, famous for the unbuilt “bridge to nowhere,” is reaching out from the grave. To get the remote Alaskan airport ball rolling, he hid $3.5 million into a Senate spending bill in 2007 to help finance an airport to serve Akutan, Alaska, from Akun Island, six miles away. Fast forward [...]
Raymond Hernandez, in his New York Times post, still doesn’t get it and he’s found that many in Congress are also missing the point of the earmark moritorium. On Capitol Hill, though, many lawmakers remain opposed to the ban, including Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand of New York, who has long supported overhauling the earmark process and [...]
There was an election last year.. right? Republicans got the message from us on spending .. right? Perhaps not all of them. The Hill published an article on Wednesday that demonstrated that there are some tone-deaf members of the House and you’ll never believe what committee their on – yup, Appropriations. Three Republican cardinals on [...]
One half of one percent of all government spending is in earmarks. To quote a famous Congressmen, “You Lie!”, or more correctly, that number hides the real truth of earmark spending. In a CNSNews article, Chris Johnson demonstrated the math: The $16.5 billion in earmarks identified by CAGW equaled 0.48 percent of overall federal spending in fiscal [...]
