Ah Yes. Our Responsible House of Reps

[rushmc 23]

House Slips 1,776 Earmarks Into Defense Bill

Appears the there is enough shame to go around

Earmarks, the widely derided process Congress uses to load bills with pork for the home folks, are alive and kicking the taxpayers on the shins - the defense appropriations bill in the House is loaded with over 1,700 of the things.

After making much noise over the appositeness of a process that allows members of Congress to slip pet programs into a spending bill House members appear to have celebrated independence Day 1776 by inserting 1776 earmarks in the defense bill, the Politico.Com's Crypt reports'

Chief earmarker was Florida Republican Bill Young, with 59 goodies for his district, and hot on his heels was none other than Pennsylvania Democrat Jack Murtha with 46 requests.

Also high on the list was the woman who claims to be the chief proponent of reform in the House, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who got 15 pet projects included.


Here are the double-digit requesters:



Member - Earmarks Requested

Young, C.W. Bill 59

Murtha, John 46

Lewis, Jerry 38

Moran, James 30

Visclosky, Peter 28

Kingston, Jack 26

Tiahrt, Todd 25

Dicks, Norman 24

Kaptur, Marcy 21

Cramer, Robert 20

Frelinghuysen, Rodney 20

Hobson, David 20

Boyd, Allen 19

Meehan, Martin 18

Bishop, Sanford 18

Pelosi, Nancy 15

Rothman, Steven 15

Price, David 13

Reynolds, Thomas 11

Wicker, Roger 11

Hoyer, Steny 11

Obey, David 10

Hunter, Duncan 10

Olver, John 10

Capuano, Michael 10

Marshall, Jim 10

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[kelpdiver 2]

can't that be sorted by $$ rather than numbers?

Someone that put in 100 $1M entries isn't as bad as the one who put in a single $1B entry.

[Andy9o8 2]

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After making much noise over the appositeness .....

Dead giveaway it wasn't you....


http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/7/27/150319.shtml

[rushmc 23]

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can't that be sorted by $$ rather than numbers?

Someone that put in 100 $1M entries isn't as bad as the one who put in a single $1B entry.

I would like to see the number AND the a description of some sort

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[jman 0]

Bill Moyers Journal did a good piece on earmarks last night(27th). We've gone from roughly 3,000 earmarks in 1996 to over 32,000 in 2007. Even though reps like Flake from AZ are fighting earmarks, he went 0 for 39 until he had one repealed for a mere $129,000.00. A group called Taxpayers for Common Sense are trying to bring this to the public eye but of course there are rules set up to make it extremely difficult at best.

[mnealtx 0]

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Bill Moyers Journal did a good piece on earmarks last night(27th). We've gone from roughly 3,000 earmarks in 1996 to over 32,000 in 2007. Even though reps like Flake from AZ are fighting earmarks, he went 0 for 39 until he had one repealed for a mere $129,000.00. A group called Taxpayers for Common Sense are trying to bring this to the public eye but of course there are rules set up to make it extremely difficult at best.

Your numbers are off, according to Citizens Against Government Waste (the keepers of the infamous "Pig Book"). They show 958 pork barrel line items in bills for FY 1996 (totaling 12.5B), and 2,658 pork barrel line items in bills for FY2007 (totaling 13.2B).

Mike
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[jman 0]

These were the numbers that were given in the show according to a guy named Steve Ellis who's part of a group called Taxpayers for Common Sense.

[TheAnvil 0]

If memory serves, didn't Speaker Pelosi state that earmarks would be eradicated in the Dem-run House?

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[jman 0]

http://www.taxpayer.net/TCS/PressReleases/2007/07-25hcjs.html

Leading the pack, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) weighed in with 8 earmarks totaling just shy of $8 million