Category: Porkbusters

John Hawkins wrote yesterday about what David Strom called "the largest federal loan in history" that "you never heard of."Deals like this one help you understand how taxpayers get …

Update: The Bennett Amendment striking Section 220 from bill S.1 has passed, and the votes were virtually down party lines. Link via Instapundit. I just finished a blogger conference …

Republican Senator Jim DeMint led the fight to make earmarks transparent in new Senate rules. But Majority Leader Harry Reid fought tooth and nail to prevent that rule from …

The secret "holders" have been exposed and Senator Frist has promised, "In September, I will bring S. 2590 to the floor of the Senate for the vote it deserves."...

I blogged recently about the joint effort of various Porkbusters to expose earmarks, but it is definitely worth repeating. Mary Katharine Ham makes it the subject of her second …

The Sunlight Foundation has a new program, Exposing Earmarks, that will appeal to those wishing to cut government spending. The Examiner announces the launch of the program in today's …

On Capitol Hill they've greased the skids for those who want to belly up to the porkbarrel. Here's a off the cuff comparison of the paperwork required to receive …

It's a long list, most of which have already been covered elsewhere...According to an ABC report Karl Rove told Time magazine reporter Matt Cooper about Valerie Plame's CIA employment. …

Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) joined bloggers Glenn Reynolds, Mark Tapscott, NZ Bear, Erick Erickson, Tim Chapman, and myself to to discuss spending, appropriations, and earmarks this afternoon in the …

If you're new to the story of The Bridge To Nowhere, Ronald Utt at The Heritage Foundation gives the history of the bridge project in, The Bridge to Nowhere: …