politico.com - 2/2/2009
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The Obama administration wants it known that it's serious about keeping earmarks out of the stimulus plan.
countryfirstpac.com - 2/3/2009
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countryfirstpac.com —
The Senate recently began debate on an economic
stimulus package that is intended to get our economy
get back on track and help Americans who are suffering through these difficult times. Unfortunately, the proposal on the table is big on the ...
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Vote No on the Economic Stimulus
fivethirtyeight.com - 2/3/2009
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fivethirtyeight.com —
I've seen it asserted, assumed or alleged in
many places that the stimulus package is hemorrhaging public
support and might become something of an albatross around the Obama administration's neck. While I don't doubt that the stimulus could become ...
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The Stimulus: Still Popular After All These Weeks
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 2/8/2009
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org —
Claire McCaskill seems to be softening her line
on the Senate stimulus deal. She Tweets “Just saw
Krugman’s comments on reduction in recov act. Question for him. Would no stimulus act be better than one thats 800 B instead of 900.” ...
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A Flawed Stimulus is Better than No Stimulus
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Is the FutureGen 'Clean Coal' Project Back in the Stimulus Bill?
TPM Election Central —
... But FutureGen was nowhere in the House stimulus bill. According to Politico, that move was intended to signify the White House's serious intention to avoid earmarks ... especially earmarks that could be spun as benefiting the president's home state. ...
Rahm Throws Pelosi Under The Bus To Save Stimulus Bill
Firedoglake —
... The House bill is notable not only for its size but also because it had no earmarks, which are the lifeblood of House members, the way they show their constituents what they're doing for them. As one person knowledgable about the writing of the bill says, "if you're in the house why would you write a bill without earmarks unless you didn't write the bill?" ...
Jane Hamsher: Rahm Throws Pelosi Under The Bus To Save Stimulus Bill
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... The House bill is notable not only for its size but also because it had no earmarks, which are the lifeblood of House members, the way they show their constituents what they're doing for them. As one person knowledgable about the writing of the bill says, "if you're in the House why would you write a bill without earmarks unless you didn't write the bill?" ...
Coburn Trying to Strip FutureGen Earmark
TPM Election Central —
... straight to FutureGen, the Illinois-based "clean coal" project that the Obama administration had said it would keep out of the stimulus. ...
What's in the Stimulus?: An Earmark as Big as the Ritz
The Corner on National Review Online —
... to lobby to restart the project. The Illinois delegation in Congress has also been pushing hard for the FutureGen earmark, despite the fact that the Obama administration has been vocal about their opposition to earmarks in the stimulus, and has even specfically said they are oppposed to including funding for FutureGen in the bill. The Wall Street Journal ...
Rolling Stone Defends Pork, Attacks GOP
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... But FutureGen was nowhere in the House stimulus bill. According to Politico, that move was intended to signify the White House's serious intention to avoid earmarks ... especially earmarks that could be spun as benefiting the president's home state. ...
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Pelosi vows to keep stimulus free of earmarks
thehill.com 1/12/2009 — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Sunday vowed that there will be no earmarks in the upcoming economic stimulus bill that Congress and the incoming Obama administration are negotiating. “I can pledge to you that no earmark or any of that, any ...
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 ...
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