politicalnewslive.blogspot.com - 1/25/2009
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President Barack Obama's ban on earmarks in the $825 billion economic stimulus bill doesn't mean interest groups, lobbyists and lawmakers won't be able to funnel money to pet projects.
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 ...
Obama To Ban Earmarks From Stimulus Bill
huffingtonpost.com 1/12/2009 — 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 members insert pet projects without ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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