CNN
written by Drew Griffin and Scott Bronstein
Tuesday April 15, 2008 <<<<
(CNN) -- Last year Sen. Barack Obama, submitted a laundry list of federal funding requests, known as earmarks, to the Senate Appropriations Committee: 112 earmarks totaling more than $330 million in taxpayer funds.
But that was last year.
This year, as the Senate funding request deadline approaches and the final primaries of the Democratic nomination process draw near, Obama's staff told CNN the junior senator from Illinois will request no earmarks for fiscal year 2009.
The dramatic change is in line with a statement Obama issued last month in connection with an amendment calling for a one-year moratorium on earmarks in the Senate.
The amendment, sponsored by federal earmark foe Sen. Jim DeMint, R-South Carolina, was shot down by a vote of 79-21.
"We can no longer accept a process that doles out earmarks based on a member of Congress' seniority, rather than the merit of the project," Obama's statement said.
"The entire earmark process needs to be re-examined and reformed. For that reason, I will be supporting Sen. DeMint's amendment and will not be requesting earmarks this year for Illinois," the statement added.
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EARMARKS 2009
Since Junior Senator Obama became President Obama
I am DEMANDING that every Congressperson and Senator that has ever requested and received a SPECIAL INTEREST EARMARK (PORK) at the TAXPAYERS EXPENSE should pay us back out of their very OWN POCKETBOOKS! Afterall, that money went to pay-back your compaign sponsors ONLY benefiting your political careers. Isn't that considered HIGHWAY ROBBERY? NO MORE FREEBIES on the backs of HARD WORKING Americans! Pay it back!
in Final Defense Appropriations Bill December 17, 2009:
1,720 EARMARKS
worth $4.2 (B)ILLION
Total in disclosed earmarks
in FY10 Omnibus Spending Bill December 10, 2009:
5,224 EARMARKS
worth $3.898 (B)ILLION
Total in disclosed earmarks
in Defense Authorization Bill October 30, 2009:
687 EARMARKS
worth $4 (B)ILLION
Total in disclosed earmarks
in Dept of Homeland Security Appropriations Bill October 21, 2009:
186 EARMARKS
worth $420 (M)ILLION
Total in disclosed earmarks
in 2009 Omnibus Spending Bill March 13, 2009:
8,570 EARMARKS
worth $7.7 (B)ILLION
Total in disclosed earmarks
To be CONTINUED... still researching!
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ADDED BONUS!
BILLIONS of Taxpayer Dollars Magically Disappear!
Watchdog.org
written by Bill McMorris
November 17, 2009
Just how big is the stimulus package? Well for one, it has doubled the size of the House of Representatives, according to recovery.gov, which says that funds were distributed to 440 congressional districts that do not exist.
According to data retrieved from recovery.gov, nearly $6.4 (B)ILLION was used to “create or save” just under 30,000 jobs in these PHANTOM congressional districts – almost $225,000 PER JOB. The web site operates on an $84 (M)ILLION BUDGET and is tasked with MONITORING the distribution of the $787 billion stimulus package passed by Congress – which, for the record, counts 435 members – in early 2009.
EXTRA! EXTRA!
Watchdog.orgwritten by Scott St. Clair
Tuesday January 26, 2010
They keep getting it wrong at Recovery.gov, the federal government Web site that tracks stimulus efforts. First it was phantom Congressional districts, then phantom Zip Codes, now it’s PHANTOM stimulus CONTRACTS.
And they’re too easy to find since it only took one phone call to dig one up.
According to Recovery.gov, two contracts totaling $210,381 resulting in the creation of ZERO JOBS were awarded in the Kirkland, Wash. Zip Code of 98034. Per the site, both were awarded to Lancs Industries, a manufacturer of protective clothing, containment devices and other safety products.
This came as news to Tim Wiest, Lancs’ president, however. But Lancs itself DOES NOT have ANY contractual relationship with the U.S. government, he said.
“I am uncomfortable with the appearance that stimulus funds are coming to us directly,” he said. Yet the clear implication from the Web site is that is what’s happening.
Wiest wanted it understood that the implication is FALSE. Lancs Industries has “no contract with any federal agency through which we receive federal stimulus funds,” he said.
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