In case you missed it, Rep. Nan Hayworth, R-Mount Kisco, discussed earmarks or the lack thereof in a NYT’s piece that appeared Saturday. The story pointed out that earmarks, a.k.a. pork or money appropriated by Congress for specific projects in specific districts, have paid for many public improvements throughout District… Read More →
Taxpayers for Common Sense Vice President Steve Ellis said in an email this afternoon that his nonpartisan budget watchdog group calculates Sen. Joe Biden made 116 requests in the 2009 federal budget for special federal projects called earmarks. Biden’s requests totaled $323 million. Lawmakers typically obtain only a fraction of… Read More →
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has requested $860 million in special federal spending projects, commonly referred to as earmarks, since taking office as a senator, according to an analysis released this evening by a nonpartisan budget watchdog group. “We have had a lot of questions about earmark requests and there… Read More →
  The Empire Center for New York State Policy’s new www.SeeThroughNY.net Web site received more than 40,000 unique “hits†in its first day, which was more traffic than expected and bogged the site down. It turns out a lot of public employees were particularly interested in one aspect of the open-government site—the… Read More →
Phoenix House in Yorktown is expected to get $141,000 in federal funds to expand substance abuse treatment for young people. The funding is included in the final spending bill Congress sent to President Bush this week for his signature. The money will go for screenings and assessments in a number… Read More →
Hillary Clinton’s effort to steer federal tax dollars toward a museum honoring Woodstock drew loads of criticism. But this “item”:http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/30/kth.museum/index.html from CNN today would seem to give Hillary a run for her money in terms of sparking outrage. A House member from California wants taxpayers to spend $50,000 to build… Read More →
