seattletimes.nwsource.com - 3/3/2009
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Although President Obama has repeatedly pledged to ban congressional earmarks, White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel has 16 such projects, worth $8.5 million, in the bill the Senate is to begin debating today.
foxnews.com - 3/2/2009
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foxnews.com —
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama will break a
campaign pledge and sign a budget bill laden with...
millions in lawmakers' pet projects, administration officials said. Administration budget chief Peter Orszag and White House chief of staff Rahm ...
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McCain fumes over 9,000 earmarks in omnibus budget: ‘If it seems like I’m angry, it’s because I am.’
Think Progress —
... support of the American people — where he said he would work to eliminate earmarks.”
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McCain, who did not request any earmarks himself, said, “I want to freely acknowledge that Republicans were guilty of this as well.” Indeed, Republican leader Mitch McConell “has more than $75 million worth of earmarks in the omnibus spending bill.” Obama, Rahm Emanuel, Joe Biden, and Ken Salazar also have earmarks in the bill. As ThinkProgress ...
McCain urges Obama to veto Rahm Emanuel's $8.5 million in earmarks
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... . Among the goodies: money for a Chicago planetarium and streets in a Chicago
suburb. Aside from Emanuel's special projects, there are 9,000 earmarks for domestic projects in a bill designed to keep government funded
through Sept. 30, the end of this fiscal year. ...
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