thehill.com - 1/12/2009
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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 description you want to make of it will be in ...
change.gov - 1/7/2009
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change.gov —
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 ...
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No earmarks
firstread.msnbc.msn.com - 1/6/2009
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firstread.msnbc.msn.com —
From NBC's Lauren Appelbaum On his second day
in Washington, President-elect Obama met with his budget team
and promised no earmarks will be in the stimulus plan. "We are going to ban all earmarks -- the process by which individual ...
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Obama vows no earmarks on stimulus
corner.nationalreview.com - 1/9/2009
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corner.nationalreview.com —
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 ...
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Earmarks and the Stimulus Bill
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... money given to state governments would reach cities and counties suffering from budget shortfalls.
The Hill reports: "Democratic senators have set a goal of Feb. 13 to pass an $800 billion economic stimulus package proposed by President-elect Obama. Senate Democrats said they made significant progress during a rare two-hour Sunday meeting with Lawrence Summers, a senior Obama aide who will head the National Economic Council."
Speaker Pelosi pledges: No Earmarks.
McClatchy assesses McConnell’s weak hand: "[Senate Min. Leader ...
Dems Redefining Earmarks to Fulfill Obama's Pledge
Weekly Standard Blog —
... And yesterday on CNN's Late Edition, Speaker Pelosi promised that there will be no earmarks "in the bill that passes the House" -- pointedly leaving open the possibility that earmarks will be inserted during Senate consideration, or when the House passes the likely conference report before it is sent to the president. ...
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RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... ). Nancy Pelosi promised no earmarks in the bill when it passes the House. And more recently House Democratic leader Jim Clyburn owned up to the fact that Democrats intend to make sure that Congress gets its earmarks, ...
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Obama weighs decision about bailout funds —
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