Coburn's 'Wiki-earmarks' service highlights omnibus pork

Republican Senator porkers (earmarks) in the omnibus bill
Republican Senator porkers (Earmarks) in the omnibus bill You expect the Democrats the load bills up with pork aka earmarks, but one would think that the Republicans got the hint after the November 2nd Elections. Looks like the Republicans are as braindead as the Democrats when it comes to the voter’s ire. In fact, while there are over 6,000 earmarks in the latest $1.1 Trillion dollar omnibus bill, the two leaders in earmark request according to Cubachi are the two Mississippi Republican...

Obamas bounce
Now that Congress passed the Trillion-dollar bill, Krauthammer sees Obama as The new comeback kid Obama had a bad November. Self-confessedly shellacked in the Midterm Election, he fled the scene to Asia and various unsuccessful meetings, only to return to a sad-sack lame-duck Congress with ghostly dozens of defeated Democrats wandering the halls. Now, with his stunning tax deal, Obama is back. Holding no high cards, he nonetheless managed to resurface suddenly not just as a player but as orche...

Reid Drops Omnibus Spending Bill
Politico reports: Senate Democrats abruptly abandoned an omnibus Budget bill for the coming year, pushing major spending decisions into the next Congress and giving Republicans immense new leverage to confront President Barack Obama priorities. The decision Thursday night sweeps away months of Bipartisan work by the Senate Appropriations Committee which had crafted the $1.1 Trillion bill to meet spending targets embraced by Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R—Ky.) himself prior to the electio...

Earmarks, Spending, and the Scope of the Federal Government
The Washington Post reported yesterday that Republican senators were turning their back on a massive spending bill stuffed full of their own Earmarks. Those earmarks, the Post noted, included quite a few to benefit Mississippi, the home state of Senators Roger Wicker and Thad Cochran: Wicker, along with Cochran, had by then already sponsored earmarks in the spending bill that would fund an airport expansion in Tunica ($1.75 million), new riverwalk lights in Columbus ($300,000), improvements to a...

Session Suddenly Not So Lame
It's increasingly apparent that the Congress which hadn't gotten a whole lot done since the enactment of health reform Legislation may well go out with a flurry of genuinely significant activity. The tax deal cleared Congress last night, even as the Senate killed an omnibus appropriations bill leaving most Discretionary Spending decisions to the next session. And it looks like the Repeal of DADT is back on track for a stand-alone vote. Prospects for ratification of START are less robust, but t...

Republicans Stop Pro-Abortion Omnibus Bill as Reid Pulls It
Late Thursday, pro-abortion Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid gave up on trying to pass the 1.1 Trillion omnibus spending bill that contains numerous goodies for the Abortion industry. After realizing Republicans were unified in opposition to the measure and had enough votes to sustain a Filibuster against it, Reid pulled the Legislation. The move results in yanking more than $1 billion in funding for implementation of the ObamaCare Health Care law that could result in massive Abortion funding. ...

Defeat 6 Weeks Too Late Is Still Sweet
Last night, Harry Reid pulled the pork-filled omnibus spending bill , agreeing to a 1-page CR to fund the government through the holidays: After wrestling with, and finally abandoning, a 1,900-page catch-all spending bill stuffed with more than $8 billion in home-state projects known as Earmarks in Washington and pork in the rest of the country, Senate leaders need to come up with a measure to keep the Federal Government running into early next year. Nearly $1.3 Trillion in unfinished Budget wo...

Inhofe Earmarks $44.7M in End-of-Year Omnibus
As the Democrats try to pass an end-of-year Omnibus spending bill, Senators are larding up the bloated, $1.1 Trillion dollar measure with Earmarks. Sen. Tom Coburn's office has done a great job of exposing the vast amount of earmarks in the bill (over 6,700 earmarks) - with a database viewable here. As usual, there is a great deal of difference between Oklahoma's two Republican senators. Dr. Coburn requested zero earmarks, while Sen. Inhofe's name appears on 42 separate Earmarks. Inhofe's earmar...

The Tax Bill Signing Ceremony
Here’s who will be there. Conspicuous by his presence — Mitch McConnell. Conspicuous by their absence — Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. And here I thought Obama would not have a signing ceremony. If this bill doesn't prove Obama is a Socialist I don't know what will. By having Mitch there, will this officially come to be known as the Obama-McConnel deal? Two words explain why Mme. Speaker won't be there: Jane Harman The Food Safety bill is almost certainly dead. Why? Don’t b...

Spending bill racks up $2 billion in earmarks
Senate leaders and top appropriators from both parties racked up more than $2.2 billion in Earmarks in the massive omnibus spending bill that Democrats are pushing to enact in the final days of the 111th Congress. According to a Politico analysis of an earmark database compiled by Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) racked up $252 million, Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) snagged another $145 million, Democratic Conference Vice Chairman Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) scor...

A $48 Billion Request But No Earmark
By Louise Radnofsky The release of a database compiled by the anti-earmark group Taxpayers for Common Sense has drawn unwelcome attention for three Democratic lawmakers who don’t disclose on their websites the special projects for which they have sought Federal Funding. The House Appropriations Committee has had a rule since January 2009 that lawmakers are supposed to explain the earmark’s purpose and “why it is a valuable use of taxpayer funds” on their websites. For almost all the..

Senators vote to ban earmarks _ then grab them
WASHINGTON (AP) - More than two dozen senators, most Republicans, who recently voted to ban homestate projects are claiming hundreds of Earmarks in an almost $1.3 Trillion bill to fund most federal programs and agencies into next fall. Republicans are calling the 1,924-page bill a pork-filled mess and accusing Democrats of trying to jam it through Congress with minimal debate and little if any opportunity to make changes. Some GOP senators voiced outrage but made no effort to dump their own ear...

Senators vote to ban earmarks -- then grab them
WASHINGTON—More than two dozen senators, most Republicans, who recently voted to ban homestate projects are claiming hundreds of Earmarks in an almost $1.3 Trillion bill to fund most federal programs and agencies into next fall. Republicans are calling the 1,924-page bill a pork-filled mess and accusing Democrats of trying to jam it through Congress with minimal debate and little if any opportunity to make changes. Some GOP senators voiced outrage but made no effort to dump their own earm...

Senators Vote to Ban Earmarks - Then Grab Them
Thursday, December 16, 2010 By Andrew Taylor, Associated Press Washington (AP) - Twenty-five senators, most Republicans, who recently voted to ban homestate projects are claiming hundreds of Earmarks in an almost $1.3 Trillion bill to fund most federal programs and agencies until next year. Republicans are calling the 1,924-page bill a pork-filled mess and accusing Democrats of trying to jam it through Congress with minimal debate and little if any opportunity to make changes. Some GOP sena...

Lawmakers dump $1.3T spending bill
WASHINGTON - Democrats controlling the Senate yesterday abandoned a huge catchall spending measure combining nearly $1.3 Trillion worth of unfinished Budget work, including another $158 billion for Military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The 1,924-page bill collapsed of its own weight after an outcry from Conservatives - including Massachusetts Republican Sen. Scott Brown - who complained it was stuffed with more than $8 billion in homestate pet projects known as Earmarks and w...

Senators wanting earmark ban end up grabbing them
WASHINGTON (AP) - More than two dozen senators—most of them Republicans—put hundreds of homestate projects in the $1.3 Trillion bill to fund the Federal Government even though they recently voted to ban so-called Earmarks. The effort to pass the 1,924-page bill collapsed Thursday night after complaints by Conservatives over its complexity and size and the relatively few days to be devoted to debating its merits. Anti-spending Tea Party Activists were angry, too, especially since they ...

Senators vote to ban earmarks _ then grab them
WASHINGTON — Twenty-five senators, most Republicans, who recently voted to ban homestate projects are claiming hundreds of Earmarks in an almost $1.3 Trillion bill to fund most federal programs and agencies until next year. Republicans are calling the 1,924-page bill a pork-filled mess and accusing Democrats of trying to jam it through Congress with minimal debate and little if any opportunity to make changes. Some GOP senators voiced outrage but made no effort to dump their own earmarks...

With Omnibus Dead, How Will The Government Fund Health Reform Implementation?
With Omnibus Dead, How Will The Government Fund Health Reform Implementation? Last night, citing overwhelming opposition from Republicans, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) dropped the omnibus spending package that included some $1 billion in funding for health reform and instead opted for a much smaller continuing resolution (CR) to extend federal spending authority into the new year. With the defeat of the omnibus, Republicans are pushing Reid to issue a CR at the 2008 levels, which...

With Omnibus Dead, How Will The Government Fund Health Reform Implementation?
Last night, citing overwhelming opposition from Republicans, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) dropped the omnibus spending package that included some $1 billion in funding for health reform and instead opted for a much smaller continuing resolution (CR) to extend federal spending authority into the new year. With the defeat of the omnibus, Republicans are pushing Reid to issue a CR at the 2008 levels, which may not include additional Health Care dollars since the Affordable Care Act p...

All the Omnibus's Earmarks
Get alerts when there is a new article that might interest you. Oklahoma's junior senator Tom Coburn has compiled a "working database" of every earmark in the omnibus appropriations bill in the form of an Excel Spreadsheet. Here are some of the Most Expensive Earmarks listed: $40,000,000 for an "International Program for the Elimination of Child Labor for the US contribution to a multinational effort to combat child labor consistent with Executive Order 12216 and the William Wilberforce Traffick...

All the Omnibus's Earmarks
Get alerts when there is a new article that might interest you. Oklahoma's junior senator Tom Coburn has compiled a "working database" of every earmark in the omnibus appropriations bill in the form of an Excel Spreadsheet. Here are some of the Most Expensive Earmarks listed: $40,000,000 for an "International Program for the Elimination of Child Labor for the US contribution to a multinational effort to combat child labor consistent with Executive Order 12216 and the William Wilberforce Traffick...

A Detailed List of Earmarks in The Omnibus Spending Bill
Pork, pork, pork. It's enough pork to make a Southside Chicago BBQ joint greasy with envy. Yes, it's a bacchanalia of pork spending and Earmarks in the Omnibus spending bill, for sure, and we now have the database to prove it. Senator Tom Coburn has posted a Google Spreadsheet data base document on line and there you can see how much the earmark costs us, where it is going, and which of our congressmen asked for the earmark. There's One million, five hundred eighteen thousand dollars for animal ...

A Detailed List of Earmarks in The Omnibus Spending Bill
Pork, pork, pork. It’s enough pork to make a Southside Chicago BBQ joint greasy with envy. Yes, it’s a bacchanalia of pork spending and Earmarks in the Omnibus spending bill, for sure, and we now have the database to prove it. Senator Tom Coburn has posted a Google Spreadsheet data base document on line and there you can see how much the earmark costs us, where it is going, and which of our congressmen asked for the earmark. There’s One million, five hundred eighteen thousand d...

MERS and accounting control fraud
For those who came in late, Accounting control Fraud takes place at the elite, CEO level, when the executives of a company subvert its "accounting control" systems to enable fraud, generally to enrich themselves and their cronies by looting the company. Enron (whose executives were prosecuted) is one example. The S&L crisis under Reagan (where many executives were prosecuted) is another. Now, Randy Wray has a terrific three-parter on MERS, Accounting control fraud, and a called short at the ...

House Passes Extension of Bush Tax Cuts
Thursday night, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to extend the Bush-era Tax Cuts for two years. However, many Democrats aren't happy with the Compromise. It took months of fierce negotiation and contentious compromises and many Democrats fought up to the last minute. "What this bill represents is a complete surrender of Democratic principles," said Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass. "This bill will kill our Children with very little benefit at the moment," said Rep. Michael Capuano, D-Mass. In...