
« The Problem Is Leadership | Main | Saddam Documents: Fences Make Good Neighbors Edition »
The Sunlight Foundation unveils its new Exposing Earmarks website today, in conjunction with the Club for Growth, Citizens Against Government Waste, The Heritage Foundation, and many in the blogosphere, including Instapundit, Porkbusters and Human Events Online. The Examiner announces the launch in today's edition:
Congress is considering a bill — the Labor, Health and Human Services appropriations measure — that presently contains 1,867 earmarks worth more than a half-billion tax dollars and averaging nearly $268,000 each. Many are for things that sound like worthy causes such as "hospital facilities and equipment," yet none of the sponsoring congressmen put their names on their earmarks.That's why The Examiner newspapers have joined with the Sunlight Foundation, Porkbusters.org, and Citizens Against Government Waste in posting the database of earmarks in the Labor-HHS appropriations and inviting readers to help identify the congressmen behind each earmark. Organizations like The Heritage Foundation, National Taxpayers Union and Club for Growth blog are linking to the database. The database was obtained from a congressional source and has been checked and double-checked. Congress may still modify the bill, approve it as is or reject it.
I'll be posting more at the Heritage Foundation Policy Blog, so keep an eye out there. Let's see how the viral network of the blogosphere can work. Find the most outrageous pork-barrel items in the HHS budget and post them in comments here. I'll put some together and post about them here and at Heritage to keep everyone informed about the ridiculous manner in which Congress spends our money.
One caveat: I already found the three million dollars that went to the Charles B Rangel Center for Public Service. That one's mine. Go find yours now!
Sphere It
Trackback Pings
TrackBack URL for this entry is
Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Exposing Earmarks:
» Here, Piggy! Piggy! from America's North Shore Journal
The Examiner newspapers and the Sunlight Foundation, Porkbusters.org, and Citizens Against Government Waste are laying out the pork in the current appropriations bill for the Departments of Labor and HHS. The pols call them “earmarks” so a... [Read More]
Tracked on August 16, 2006 12:31 PM

captain*at*captainsquartersblog.com


My Other Blog!
E-Mail/Comment/Trackback Policy
Comment Moderation Policy - Please Read!
Skin The Site








Hugh Hewitt
Captain's Quarters
Fraters Libertas
Lileks
Power Line
SCSU Scholars
Shot In The Dark
Northern Alliance Radio Network
Northern Alliance Live Streaming!


Des Moines Register
International Herald Tribune
The Weekly Standard
Drudge Report
Reason
The New Republic
AP News (Yahoo! Headlines)
Washington Post
Guardian Unlimited (UK)
New York Times
Los Angeles Times
OpinionJournal
Pioneer Press
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
MS-NBC
Fox News
CNN

Design & Skinning by:
m2 web studios
blog advertising

- dave on Another National Health Care System Horror Story
- brooklyn on Hillary Not Hsu Happy
- rbj on Hillary Not Hsu Happy
- Robin S on Requiem For A Betrayed Hero
- Ken on Hillary Not Hsu Happy
- Robin S. on Requiem For A Betrayed Hero
- RBMN on Hillary Not Hsu Happy
- NoDonkey on Another National Health Care System Horror Story
- Robin Munn on Fred Thompson Interview Transcript
- filistro on When Exactly Did Art Die?
