The election is over. Republicans won the House and increased their numbers in the Senate. Now the media are beginning to focus on how the newly-empowered Republicans will govern. No longer are ...Read More
Far be it from us to defend John McCain (R-AZ). In our book Cheese Factories on the Moon: Why Earmarks are Good for American Democracy we characterize earmark opponents like McCain as ranging fr...Read More
NPR Reporter Audie Cornish is reporting on efforts by members of Congress to influence the expenditure of stimulus funds in their states and districts (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?sto...Read More
The latest news regarding Cheese Factories on the Moon is now available at: http://myemail.constantcontact.com/Cheese-Factories-on-the-Moon.html?soid=1103600790273&aid=-wgCwOpWuUg...Read More
Recently Sean Kelly sat down with Judy Woodruff of the PBS News Hour for an on-line interview about Cheese Factories on the Moon. The interview is posted at: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/...Read More
Scott Frisch and Sean Kelly will discuss their new book Cheese Factories on the Moon: Why Earmarks are Good for American Democracy Monday, September 20th from 5:00 to 6:30 PM at Catholic University in...Read More
Earmarks and archives are two topics near and dear to our hearts, so we obviously took notice when they both came under attack by Taxpayers for Common Sense last week.[1] The interest group expr...Read More
by Sean Kelly When he died Senator Robert Byrd reportedly had 11 post offices and 2 airports in the state of West Virginia named after him. After the death of Senator Ted Kennedy–owin...Read More
Earlier this year House Appropriations Committee Chairman Dbavid Obey (D-WI) announced a ban on earmarks for private for-profit companies in House Appropriations bills. Like earlier earmark refo...Read More
We did our first interview about the book with LATalkRadio.com hosted by Brendan Huffman. Click the title above to give it a listen. It runs about 20 minutes....Read More