Super Hornet: More of these.
On Tuesday, 10 U.S. senators and House members got together in a room in the Capitol and saved the jobs of 900 St. Louisans, 5,000 Californians and thousands more around the country.
They did this by deciding to…
A shot from the"Lobstercam," a project of Maine Lobster Institute, beneficiary of a $188,000 federal earmark.
As we have noted before, one person’s “wasteful earmark project” is another person’s “vital public investment.” Nonetheless, any time two U.S. senators of such vastly different…
Seldom, if ever, has the American economy gone through a week like the one just passed.
It began with a $1.2 trillion loss on Wall Street as stocks dropped 8 percent in a single day. It ended with Congress passing and President…
The $700 billion financial bailout package passed by the House today and signed into law by President Bush contains a number of “sweeteners” inserted by the Senate. Among them is this one:
SEC. 503. EXEMPTION FROM EXCISE TAX FOR CERTAIN WOODEN…
In the two weeks since Sen. John McCain of Arizona named Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate, billing her as a sister “maverick,” the Alaska governor has been revealed to be something less.
Instead, she appears to be a conventional…
The pork-busters who work for Citizens Against Government Waste were against earmarks back in the mid-1980s, before being against earmarks was cool.
A familiar pattern emerged: The fiscal watchdog organization’s annual spring release of its “Pig Book” would result in a…
