Examples of earmarks in omnibus spending bill

Examples of earmarks in omnibus spending bill
Senate Democrats' 1,924-page omnibus spending bill contains more than 6,700 pet projects known as Earmarks. They include: -$1 million for peanut research in Athens and Tifton, Ga. -$3 million to restore oyster beds in the Chesapeake Bay. -$360,000 for the Buffalo, N.Y., police department to purchase Surveillance cameras. -$800,000 to develop advanced packaging for combat rations. -$4.4 million to develop laser technology to counter Roadside Bombs and other improvised Explosive Devices. -$12 mi...

Examples of earmarks in omnibus spending bill
Senate Democrats' 1,924-page omnibus spending bill contains more than 6,700 pet projects known as Earmarks. They include: —$1 million for peanut research in Athens and Tifton, Ga. —$3 million to restore oyster beds in the Chesapeake Bay. —$360,000 for the Buffalo, N.Y., police department to purchase Surveillance cameras. —$800,000 to develop advanced packaging for combat rations. —$4.4 million to develop laser technology to counter Roadside Bombs and other improvise...

Examples of earmarks in omnibus spending bill
Senate Democrats’ 1,924-page omnibus spending bill contains more than 6,700 pet projects known as Earmarks. They include: —$1 million for peanut research in Athens and Tifton, Ga. —$3 million to restore oyster beds in the Chesapeake Bay. —$360,000 for the Buffalo, N.Y., police department to purchase Surveillance cameras. —$800,000 to develop advanced packaging for combat rations. —$4.4 million to develop laser technology to counter Roadside Bombs and other imp...

No place like home in a battle zone
Provide feedback to the multimedia producers. Thank you. Your feedback was successfully sent. Video will begin in 5 seconds. What type of connection do you have? Your video format settings have been saved. Photographer Angela Wylie and reporter Dan Oakes are living with Australian Troops in Musazai as they mentor members of the Afghan army. Soldiers live life on the edge at Oruzgan base in Afghanistan, writes Dan Oakes in Musazai. IT IS the hour before dawn in the mountains of southern Afghanis...

Bomb expert at Palace for medal
A Sheffield soldier who cleared more Roadside Bombs than anyone else in history is to receive the George Medal at a ceremony at Buckingham Palace. Sgt Maj Karl Ley, 29, made safe 139 improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) planted by the Taliban during a tour of Helmand Province in Afghanistan. The number is more than twice as many as any other bomb disposal expert. Sgt Maj Ley will receive the medal for his "sheer determination, guile and awesome Bravery" from Prince Charles. On one opera...

All on the line
Provide feedback to the multimedia producers. Thank you. Your feedback was successfully sent. Video will begin in 5 seconds. What type of connection do you have? Your video format settings have been saved. Photographer Angela Wylie and reporter Dan Oakes visit patrol base Musazai in Afghanistan where the Australian army are mentoring members of the Afghan army. At a new base in southern Afghanistan, young Diggers are dealing this Christmas with freezing temperatures, Insurgents all around, and t...

Emirate orders chem-bio protection
Published: Dec. 17, 2010 at 12:32 PM CANONSBURG, Pa., Dec. 17 (UPI) -- NABCO Inc. of Pennsylvania is supply Abu Dhabi police with chem-bio containment vessels and explosive containment magazines. The seven units will help the emirate counter and respond to chemical, biological and explosive threats within its jurisdiction. "The sale of total containment vessels to Abu Dhabi demonstrates the global nature of NABCO's business and the requirement of Law Enforcement agencies worldwide for capabiliti...

Harry Reid Pulls Massive Omnibus Spending Bill; Mitch McConnell Reacts Video 12/16/10
Here is video of GOP Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell reacting to news that Democrat Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid had pulled the massive $1.1 Trillion Omnibus Spending Bill because he did not have the 60-votes for Cloture - which would bring it up for an Up or Down vote. The massive bill was filled with more than 39,000 Earmarks, and was 1,924-pages long . This means some kind of continuing resolution will likely be needed to fund the Government until the new Congress can act in J...

ED MORRISSEY ON THE OMNIBUS BILLS DEATH: Thank PorkBusters. How often do omnibus spending bills
ED MORRISSEY ON THE Omnibus Bill’S DEATH: Thank PorkBusters. How often do omnibus spending bills go down to defeat? Approximately … never, as Dave Weigel reminds us, and pork is usually the reason why. Not only do omnibus bills appear only when the budgeting process has failed and funding becomes an urgent issue, they also get so large and stuffed with perks that few dare to challenge them. In thi...

Harry Reid Pulls Massive Omnibus Spending Bill; Mitch McConnell Reacts Video 12/16/10
Here is video of GOP Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell reacting to news that Democrat Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid had pulled the massive $1.1 Trillion Omnibus Spending Bill because he did not have the 60-votes for Cloture - which would bring it up for an Up or Down vote. The massive bill was filled with more than 39,000 Earmarks, and was 1,924-pages long . This means some kind of continuing resolution will likely be needed to fund the Government until the new Congress can act in J...

Extension Of Bush Tax Cuts Passes; Pork Laden Spending Bill Goes Down
So I’m sure you’ve heard by now. The House of Representatives passed the bill that will extend the Bush Tax Cuts, renew Unemployment Benefits for 13 months, and cut Social Security taxes for one year late last night. The roll call showed it was a total landslide at 277-148. Democrats had 139 yeas and 112 nays while the Republicans has 138-36 Go here to see the roll call and find out how they voted. The Democrats tried to pass a higher estate tax but that went down in flames also at 2...

White House: Pass giant year-end spending bill
WASHINGTON -- The White House is pressing for passage of a $1.27 Trillion year-end spending bill despite the inclusion of thousands of congressional pet projects that President Barack Obama had vowed to oppose. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters Thursday that Obama would prefer a bill without Earmarks. But he said that Defense Secretary Robert Gates had told Obama that the Legislation is necessary because it contains key financing for National Security - including $158 billion ...

With big spending bill's demise, is 'earmark' new dirty word on Hill?
Deficit hawks and Watchdog groups see Thursday's demise of an omnibus spending bill in the Senate as a turning point. A critical mass of lawmakers, they say, are committed to an earmark ban. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., holds a copy of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington Thursday. There was no last hurrah for Earmarks - known to supporters as “congressionally mandated spending,” and to critics a...

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...

Reid Pulls Controversial $1.2 Trillion Spending Bill in Favor of Short-Term Budget Fix
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., pauses while speaking with the media, after their Senate Democratic Caucus, Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2010, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP) Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, bowing to Republican opposition to a 1,924-page $1.2 Trillion spending measure packed with Earmarks, withdrew the bill and said he would work with Republican leaders on a smaller, short-term Budget fix to avoid a looming government shutdown. The government already is operating on a te...

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...

Collapse of the omnibus spending bill: rise of the 'tea party Congress'?
Some see ideals of Tea Party movement at play in Senate, after a huge spending bill loaded with Earmarks is scuttled after GOP lawmakers thought twice about it....

Lockheed to produce sniper system
Published: Dec. 16, 2010 at 10:38 AM Lance Cpl. Mark Trent, a scout sniper with 3rd Platoon, India Company, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, provides security inside a compound in Marjah, Helmand Province, Afghanistan on February 16, 2010. The Marines took shelter inside the compound after clearing it for Insurgents and improvised Explosive Devices. UPI/Tommy Bellegarde/U.S. Marine Corps AKRON, Ohio, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has given Lockheed Martin...

Registration Opens for Government-Industry 2011 Force Protection Equipment Demonstration
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Registration has opened for the Eighth Force Protection Equipment Demonstration (FPED VIII), a collaborative effort between government and industry, which presents the latest commercial off-the-shelf technology for countering Terrorist threats. FPED VIII will be held at Northern Virginia's Stafford Regional Airport next May 17-19. The federally produced demonstration will feature the products of more than 575 exhibitors demonstrating more than 3,000 tech...

ITT developing new counter-IED system
Published: Dec. 17, 2010 at 12:03 PM CLIFTON, N.J., Dec. 17 (UPI) -- The U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command has tasked ITT of New Jersey with development of the next-generation counter-IED system. The order, worth $29 million, is the result of the command's exercising the third option of the Joint Counter Radio-Controlled Improvised Explosive Device Electronic Warfare 3.3 contract. JCREW 3.3 is a System of Systems that enables the networking of several jammers to address threats in a more efficient ...

Update: Explosives found in New Haven (photos)
NEW HAVEN - Explosives have been found at a house on Hubinger Street - and officiials, including the FBI, are at the scene investigating, police said. Police said in a statement that at about 9:15 p.m. Wednesday the Fire Department "responded to a complaint of a smoke condition at 17 Hubinger St. (first floor). "Upon investigation, the FD requested PD response to inspect possible bomb making materials." New Haven police said: "HDU units responded, along with patrol officers, ...

Panel tackles airline industry's thorny problems
A federal aviation panel is preparing to offer recommendations on how to fix some of the thorniest problems confronting the airline industry. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood appointed the committee a year ago to come up with recommendations for restoring health to the airline industry, which at that time was losing billions of dollars and shedding jobs. It wraps up its last meeting Wednesday. The panel is made up of airline, airport and labor union officials, among others. It has been workin...

What Our Taxes Do
I’d like those in Congress who equate taxes with Original Sin to acknowledge that taxes are really just prices. We pay for the amenities and services we take for granted. No one goes into a Grocery Store or a restaurant thinking that a head of lettuce or a Kobe Beef steak will be free. We are charged prices, and we pay them. Some of the things our taxes buy for legislators are their salaries, office space, aides, heat and light, Health Care, plumbing, cafeterias, gyms and parking. When th...

Panel questions safety of lap children on planes
WASHINGTON -- A federal advisory panel recommended steps Wednesday that could end the practice of having very young Children in their parents' laps when flying. The Federal Aviation Administration has the final say on regulations governing the airline industry, but a 19-member advisory panel said the federal agency should look at whether it would be safer to have Children belted into their own seats instead of being in their parents' laps. Putting Children into their own seats or using child se...