No earmarks
change.gov 1/7/2009 — President-elect Barack Obama said today in a meeting with members of his budget team that he will ban earmarks from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act that will soon go before Congress. The President-elect also said he expects his ...

Earmarks and the Stimulus Bill
corner.nationalreview.com 1/9/2009 — Count me as unimpressed by Obama's pledge to keep the stimulus bill free of earmarks. I get why Obama is doing it--it's important symbolically and some Republicans seem to believe opposition to earmarks is the sine qua non of conservative economic ...

Obama team wants earmarks out of stimulus
politico.com 2/2/2009 — The Obama administration wants it known that it's serious about keeping earmarks out of the stimulus plan.

PORKBUSTERS UPDATE: Obama on earmarks: We are going to ban all earmarks, the process by which in…
pajamasmedia.com 1/7/2009 — PORKBUSTERS UPDATE: Obama on earmarks: We are going to ban all earmarks, the process by which individual members insert pet projects without review. We will create an economic recovery oversight board made up of key administration officials and ...

16 Emanuel earmarks in federal spending bill
seattletimes.nwsource.com 3/3/2009 — 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.

Earmarks Search Results
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Obama will sign spending bill despite earmarks (AP)
news.yahoo.com 3/2/2009 — AP - President Barack Obama will break a campaign pledge against congressional earmarks and sign a budget bill laden with millions in lawmakers' pet projects, administration officials said.

Obama says No Earmarks Allowed in Stimulus Package.
volokh.com 1/6/2009 — In his brief press conference today, Barack Obama announced that there would be no earmarks allowed in his stimulus package. He stated that there would be no unreviewed projects. It was...

When will Obama 'get it' on earmarks?
dcexaminer.com 3/3/2009 — Examiner Editorial - 3/3/09 As the nation faces its most severe recession since 1982, President Barack Obama apparently wants the American people to forget that he promised he would give them earmark reform if they elected him president, even if he ...

Forget that no-earmarks pledge
betsyspage.blogspot.com 2/6/2009 — Remember how Obama and Biden vowed that there would absolutely no earmarks in the so-called stimulus bill. Well, of course, any bill that has that much money at stake is going to include earmarks and ProPublica, part of the Sunlight Foundation, is listing the earmarks that they're finding in ...

Vendors look to cash in during inauguration — msnbc.com: Politics 12/26/2008
President-elect Barack Obama's swearing-in could be a boon for Said Rangbar, among hundreds of people hoping to cash in on Inauguration Day.

Gallup Poll: Obama, Clinton Most Admired Americans — WSJ.com: Washington Wire 12/26/2008
Susan Davis reports on politics. President-elect Barack Obama is the most admired man in America while former presidential rival Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman, according to a Gallup poll released today . The polling outfit ...

Balgo atty. wants aides subpoenaed — POLITICO.com: Politics 12/26/2008
The lawyer requested that Obama's top aides Rahm Emanuel and Valerie Jarrett testify before a panel.

SI.com: What does Barack Obama’s golf swing tell us? — CNN Political Ticker 12/26/2008
Barack Obama spends his Christmas vacation golfing in Hawaii. Golf.com has performed an important service. It has posted five photographs, taken by AP photographer Gerald Herbert, that shows President-elect Barack Obama on vacation in Hawaii ...

Bush, Palin top the list of most-admired people in the world — CNN Political Ticker 12/26/2008
Gov. Sarah Palin is the second most-admired woman in the world, poll shows. (CNN) -- For the first time in over a half century, a president-elect has topped Gallup’s poll of the nation’s most admired man. Thirty-two percent of Americans surveyed in ...