Read more earmarks stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/2215/earmarks.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 10:52:05 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72564/lobbyist-cozy-with-lawmaker-wins-jackpot.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIf you’ve got a tech company looking for a handout from the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, might we recommend calling Rep. Peter Visclosky? Or more accurately, call K&L Gates, a lobbying firm that boasts in its marketing documents, “a very good relationship” with Visclosky, the third-ranking member of the all-powerful subcommittee....http://www.newser.com/story/72564/lobbyist-cozy-with-lawmaker-wins-jackpot.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 26 Oct 2009 8:26:53 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69922/murtha-institute-hands-money-to-murtha-friends.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe John P. Murtha Institute for Homeland Security may look like a mostly deserted basement below an Indiana University of Pennsylvania dormitory, but over the years it’s overseen $50 million in federal funds—almost all of it going to Murtha’s friends and industry allies, a Washington Post investigation finds. The...http://www.newser.com/story/69922/murtha-institute-hands-money-to-murtha-friends.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 21 Sep 2009 12:08:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65680/anti-earmark-rep-scores-earmark-for-blimp-research.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagRep. Pete Sessions is a vocal opponent of earmarks, but last year he scored one for a company that's not even in his district. Thanks to Sessions, $1.6 million for airship research went to a firm with no experience in either government contracting or blimp-making, Politico reports. Seems that...http://www.newser.com/story/65680/anti-earmark-rep-scores-earmark-for-blimp-research.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 30 Jul 2009 12:21:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65668/our-decrepit-democracy-cant-fix-health-care-klein.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPowerful special interests are killing health-care reform, which is par for the course in Congress, writes Joe Klein of Time . “We’ve gotten rusty at legislating,” says one Tennessee Democrat. That’s overly kind, Klein retorts. The only bills that pass these days are essentials like budgets and “cotton-candy giveaways.” The best...http://www.newser.com/story/65668/our-decrepit-democracy-cant-fix-health-care-klein.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 30 Jul 2009 11:52:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65653/house-bill-loaded-with-65b-the-pentagon-doesnt-want.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThey gave up on the F22, but Congress is still trying to give the Pentagon $6.9 billion in planes, helicopters and ships the Defense secretary doesn’t want, the Washington Post reports. House Democrats have loaded the defense spending bill with earmarks for programs Barack Obama and Robert Gates have...http://www.newser.com/story/65653/house-bill-loaded-with-65b-the-pentagon-doesnt-want.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 30 Jul 2009 8:30:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/62902/dems-get-in-shouting-and-alleged-shoving-match.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA pair of House Democrats had a less-than-decorous exchange on the floor yesterday, the Hill reports. With the chamber clearing out after a series of votes, Appropriations chair David Obey and Maxine Waters began screaming at each other over an earmark for a school bearing Waters' name. “You’re out of...http://www.newser.com/story/62902/dems-get-in-shouting-and-alleged-shoving-match.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 26 Jun 2009 10:09:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/62013/obamas-pet-power-plant-gets-stimulus-cash.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWhen the stimulus was in the works, President Obama went to great lengths to show he was sacrificing his top pet project—a clean-coal power plant to be built in Illinois—on the altar of fiscal responsibilities. “It shows that we’re serious,” a rep for Nancy Pelosi said at the...http://www.newser.com/story/62013/obamas-pet-power-plant-gets-stimulus-cash.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 16 Jun 2009 9:15:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/58391/dem-lawmakers-cry-foul-on-obama-budget-cuts.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTo make an omelet, you’ve got to break some eggs. But some of the eggs President Obama broke in the list of budget cuts unveiled yesterday were golden eggs for lawmakers, and even members of his own party wasted no time in protesting, the Washington Post reports. Dems who said...http://www.newser.com/story/58391/dem-lawmakers-cry-foul-on-obama-budget-cuts.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 08 May 2009 9:22:43 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/58056/pentagon-gives-4m-in-no-bid-contracts-to-murtha-nephew.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIt can be hard for a defense contractor to be related to a powerful legislator with hands on the military’s purse strings. Just ask Robert Murtha, nephew of Democrat John Murtha, and chief of Murtech—everyone assumes that his success is his uncle’s work. Today, the Washington Post reports that...http://www.newser.com/story/58056/pentagon-gives-4m-in-no-bid-contracts-to-murtha-nephew.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 05 May 2009 8:35:35 CDT