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G. Tracy Mehan, III The American Spectator 7/12/2011 During the dark days of Republican profligacy, when earmarks were the rule and GOP House and Senate members routinely voted for massive discretionary spending bills (many loaded with pork and earmarks) there was one man who bucked the tide of red ink: Rep.Jeff Flake (R-Arizona). “I […] July 12th, 2011 | Tags: earmarks, Rep. Jeff Flake | Category: Congress, Politicians, Video | Comments are closed
Carl Hulse The New York Times 2/26/2011 WASHINGTON — The fact that Congress remains a spending disagreement or two away from shutting down the government no doubt strikes some as remarkable. But there is another extraordinary aspect to the fiscal clash unfolding on Capitol Hill: earmarks have disappeared from the budgetary landscape… …Even Speaker John […] February 26th, 2011 | Tags: earmarks, pork barrel spending, Rep. Jeff Flake, Speaker John Boehner | Category: Congress, Federal spending | Comments are closed
Ed Morrissey HotAir.com 2/17/2011 Last night, Barack Obama continued to insist that his budget balances spending and outlays. In an interview in Cincinnati with ABC affiliate WCPO, Obama told interviewer Carol Williams that his budget will “solve the short term problem” of deficit spending, emphasis mine: “The one that we can solve right now if […] February 18th, 2011 | Tags: ABC News, earmarks, Jake Tapper, national debt, Sunlen Miller, WCPO | Category: Barack Obama, Entitlements, Federal spending, Taxes | Comments are closed
Harry Reid: Social Security is “off the table” Allahpundit HotAir.com 1/31/2011 Via HuffPo, a case study in why nothing short of fiscal catastrophe will bring about bipartisan congressional cooperation on entitlement reform. To put this into context, a choice excerpt from last year’s report on the state of Social Security and Medicare from the program’s […] January 31st, 2011 | Tags: earmarks, Sen. Harry Reid, Social Security | Category: Barack Obama, Congress, Entitlements, Federal spending, legislation, Taxes, Video | Comments are closed
Calvin Woodward San Francisco Chronicle 1/26/2011 The ledger did not appear to be adding up Tuesday night when President Barack Obama urged more spending on one hand and a spending freeze on the other. Obama spoke ambitiously of putting money into roads, research, education, efficient cars, high-speed rail and other initiatives in his State of […] January 26th, 2011 | Tags: earmarks, high-speed rail, infrastructure, Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, Speaker John Boehner, tort reform | Category: Barack Obama, Bloggers, Congress, Health Care, Iran, Taxes | Comments are closed
Lee Stranahan Big Government 1/19/2011 In this video clip, Willie Head discusses his dealing with Rep. Sanford Bishop (D-GA) including the meeting that Eddie Slaughter describes in an earlier post. Related: At Big Government, Did Congressman Sanford Bishop (D-GA) Want Pigford Fraud Coverup? The hours of interviews I’ve done with the key people involved […] January 19th, 2011 | Tags: Congressional Black Caucus, earmarks, Eddie Slaughter, Pigford Farms case, Rep. Sanford Bishop, Willie Head | Category: Agriculture and Food Production, Georgia, Racism, Video | Comments are closed
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