Mitt Romney attacks Rick Santorum on earmarks? Lame.
Senate lays down for an earmark ban after all
Abracadabra! Senate rules reform! Poof!
Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Daniel K. Inouye, (D-HI) today announced that the Committee will implement a moratorium on earmarks for the current session of Congress. This amounts to a 2 year moratorium, as it will apply to both the FY 2011 and FY...
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Cornyn whines about getting called out for hypocrisy
HEMMER: Now, you yourself have asked for earmarks, too, according to this list, some 16 million for your home state. Can you defend that, senator?
CORNYN: Well, I believe I can. But I'm not going to, because I'm going to vote against this bill.
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HEMMER:...
Republicans fought for the earmarks they now oppose
The chickens have come home to roost:
A vow to vote down their own earmarks
The port city of Pascagoula on Mississippi's Gulf Coast wants to build a beach promenade, with new benches, lush landscaping and a lighted pathway for joggers, cyclists and dog walkers.
So the municipality of 24,000...
Republicans denounce earmarks — even their own
Their hypocrisy knows no bounds:
The release of the $1.1 trillion dollar omnibus bill, including $8 billion in earmarks, quickly reignited the fight over pork-barrel spending in the final days of the lame-duck session.
Shortly after the Nov. 2 election, Senate Republicans united their caucus and passed a two-year ban on...
Republicans rethinking that so-called ban on earmarks
To the list of things no one could have anticipated -- planes flying into buildings, levees failing in New Orleans -- we have a new entry: that Republicans, after ranting endlessly about earmarks, after making a big show over passing a resolution to ban earmarks, are now having second thoughts:
After agreeing...
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Do Republicans hate earmarks because they hate Congress?
An article in The Hill makes a familiar argument about earmarks:
Even if the full Senate doesn't pass an earmark moratorium, a refusal by lawmakers to direct funding to their congressional districts will likely give more spending-priority power to the Obama administration and won't do much to chip...
