dcexaminer.com - 3/3/2009
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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 had to go line by line to make sure that we are ...
foxnews.com - 3/2/2009
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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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Obama Will Sign Spending Bill Despite Earmarks - ...
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WASHINGTON EXAMINER: When Will Obama ‘Get It’ On Earmarks?
John Campbell: Does President Obama Really 'Get It?'
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This morning, the DC Examiner , a beltway newspaper, featured an interesting editorial about President Obama’s rhetoric versus actions on earmarks. The editorial highlights a question from Time Magazine, “Does Obama have a double standard on earmarks?” I am not sure if you caught it, but during the President’s speech to a Joint Session of Congress, he boasted that there were no earmarks (however, earmarks have a multitude of guises) in his $787 billion dollar ‘Big Spending Package’ disguised as “Stimulus.” Yet the President remains quiet when Speaker Pelosi and House ...
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