Tag: earmarks
Partial Finding from Earmark Survey
As readers of the Cheese Factories blog are aware, we are running a survey on earmarks. The survey will continue to run for a couple of more weeks: take it here and please pass it on via email, ... Read MoreEarmark Challenge Quiz & Survey
We are conducting a non-scientific poll on earmarks and government expenditures. Do you think you can tell the difference between an earmark and a bureaucratically determined expenditure? ... Read MoreParochialism is the Point (sort of)
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 MoreFar be it from us to defend John McCain, but…
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 MoreOnce Again Earmarks Prove to be the Better Choice for our Democracy
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 MoreCheese Factories on the PBS News Hour On-Line
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 MoreEarmarks and Archives
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 MoreReflections on Pork and Credit-Claiming in the Ruins of Ancient Rome
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 MoreThe Paradox of Earmark Reform
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- 3 of 4
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