By ayarrow on July 5th, 2007

The number of “earmarks” – funding for politicians’ pet projects – grew eightfold from 1994 to 2006, with 15,500 earmarks costing $64 billion in 2006.

See: Congressional Research Service, “Earmarks in Appropriations Acts: FY 1994, FY 1996, FY 1998, FY 2000, FY 2002, FY 2004, FY 2005,” January 26, 2006, http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/m012606.pdf; “Bush to Request Billions for Wars,” The Washington Post, February 3, 2007; and George Will, “A Loss’s Silver Lining,” The Washington Post, November 9, 2006.


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Re: Earmark growth

On July 5th, 2007 poetspirit says:

I was able to look up a selection of 2007 Earmark Requests through the Citizens Against Government Waste (www.cagw.org).

U.S. House http://www.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=EarmarkRequests_2007_House&...

U.S. Senate http://www.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=EarmarkRequests_2007_Senate...

I looked up my U.S. Rep. and sent him an email expressing my own concerns on his list of requests. I also shared them with friends during breakfast at a restaurant!

David Weller


Re: Re: Earmark growth

On July 12th, 2007 Michael Remaley says:

as i mentioned on the earmarks thread on the Discuss section of this site, this article from the Houston Chronicle "Local GOP on the Hill push own spending wish lists" is a must read. Check it out: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4935311.html

 

it really shows how entrenched earmarks are and that requiring a legislator's name to be assigned to each earmark doesn't seemed to have slowed the pork down one bit.