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08.17.2009 9:00 pm

Tracking earmarks: Putting names on favors.

Ears marked

Ears marked

Last week, in a development that went almost unnoticed amid the national furor over health care reform, two of Washington’s nonpartisan watchdog organizations released a comprehensive database of how Congress spent $19.9 billion on 11,286 earmarked projects in fiscal year…

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07.31.2008 11:59 am

Frank, Paul: “Legalize it”

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Marijuana leafIn April, Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) and Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) co-sponsored a resolution (H.R. 5843) to end federal penalties for Americans carrying fewer than 100 grams of marijuana. (There are actually now six other co-sponsors, including our own William…

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06.24.2008 4:35 pm

Like the raging river, it’s back: The Open Thread

The telecom immunity bill surfaces again. Sens. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., and Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., vow to filibuster. That’s a promise we’ve heard before. Read it here, via Huffington Post.

And she returns like royalty. Politico reports on HRC’s return to the Senate.

Meanwhile, Bill…

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