Mortgage giant Freddie Mac, a recent recipient of a federal bailout, will not throw a party during the Democratic nominatin... View Article
Continue readingPublic Markup Transparency Bill Revised
Sunlight’s distributed effort at creating a model transparency bill – the Transparency in Government Act of 2008 – reached its... View Article
Continue readingMore on Stevens’ earmarks
The Washington Post notes that Alaskans are fretting the potential fallout of the indictment of Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, for not disclosing more than $250,000 in gifts from VECO Corp. Taxpayers for Common Sense sums it up more succinctly:
Taxpayers for Common Sense has released the last four years of earmark data for Alaska to help create an understanding of how powerful Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) has remained as an appropriator. The new research has found that Senator Stevens has secured or played a significant role in securing more than 891 earmarks worth $3.2 billion, which comes to ...Continue reading
Entitlement
Yesterday, the Senate opened their arms and hearts to Sen. Ted Stevens while vulnerable Republicans simultaneously emptied their campaign coffers... View Article
Continue readingFedSpending.org updated
Our friend Adam Hughes of OMB Watch writes:
We released new data on FedSpending.org yesterday. We've now got a complete FY 2007 year for contracts, the first quarter of FY 2008, and a partial second quarter (everything for the second quarter except DoD, which isn't very much). There is also updated assistance data through the third quarter of FY 2007. Here's the release we sent out yesterday.
Adam adds: "We're planning another data update for the end of this year."
Continue readingHow confusing are earmark disclosures?
When Rep. Neil Abercrombie requested an earmark in the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations bill to fund "Saddle Road Phase 5," he listed (on page two of that mega file courtesy of Taxpayers for Common Sense), the "U.S. Army Garrison Hawaii, located at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii" as the entity that was the recipient of the funds. Search the spread sheet Taxpayers compile for the list of earmarks in that bill, and only one Abercrombie request turns up: a $9 million earmark for "Access Road, Ph 1" in Pohakuloa TA.
The only thing that connects the two is the ...
Continue readingReason.tv on Earmarks
Maybe this can serve as an example for the networked journalism Porkbusters/Eyblast.tv project Bill just posted about. Reason.tv on the... View Article
Continue readingPorkbusters, Eyeblast.tv Wants Your Eyes on Earmarks
Porkbusters and Eyeblast.tv are teaming up on a new citizen journalism project. You can be the Edward R. Murrow of... View Article
Continue readingVECO Contributions
VECO has spent the last decade or so providing the slick for Alaska politics and it’s come come back to... View Article
Continue readingFedspending.org Hits 10 Million
This June, Fedspending.org, the contracts and grants database run by OMB Watch, reached its 10 millionth search. Today the database... View Article
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