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Walden's Earmark Requests Online, Bend Misses Out

Publication: Oregon Public Broadcasting

Ethan Lindsey
March 27, 2008

Greg Walden is Oregon's first member of Congress to put his earmark requests on his web site - $46 million he hopes the federal budget will send to his congressional district. Central Oregon correspondent Ethan Lindsey reports that despite Walden's transparency, the city of Bend will lose out.