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		<title>Panel Lays Down Law: Earmarks Are Over</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By John Stanton Roll Call Facing a world without earmarks, House appropriators from both parties are telling colleagues not to request any pork projects this year and are warning that any spending request that looks like it would benefit a single recipient will be treated like an earmark and eliminated. The new system being sketched [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stopthepork.com/2011/05/panel-lays-down-law-earmarks-are-over/</link>
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		<title>GOP Anti-Appropriators Break Up the Spending Party</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Washington Examiner The third party on Capitol Hill, Washington&#8217;s gray-haired conservatives used to grumble, was the &#8220;Appropriators Party&#8221; &#8212; an autonomous, bipartisan bloc of obdurate spenders and shameless porkers who marched in lockstep with their committee leaders and were rewarded with the choicest earmarks. But a rump of conservative Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stopthepork.com/2011/04/gop-anti-appropriators-break-up-the-spending-party/</link>
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		<title>Earmark Ban Changes Spring Season for Lobbying Firms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Kate Ackley Roll Call Staff Appropriations lobbyists used to have one certainty this time of year: forms to fill out. Piles and piles of forms requesting Congressional earmarks. Spring was the deadline for most Member-sponsored earmark requests, and so this was the silly season for much of K Street. But with earmarks out of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stopthepork.com/2011/03/earmark-ban-changes-spring-season-for-lobbying-firms/</link>
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		<title>WasteWatchers to House on Earmark Ban: &#8216;Hang Tough&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Business Wire (Washington) – Today, the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste (CCAGW) issued a statement calling for all members of Congress to stand firm on the earmark moratorium currently in place. CCAGW’s reaction came in response to a March 15, 2011 Roll Call article which described House members of both parties as “starting to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stopthepork.com/2011/03/wastewatchers-to-house-on-earmark-ban-hang-tough/</link>
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		<title>Grover Norquist: ‘Earmarks Are The Broken Windows of Overspending&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Ezra Klein Washington Post Grover Norquist is the president of Americans for Tax Reform and one of the most influential conservative activists in the country. There has been a series of reports recently that he’s fighting to keep Republicans from striking a “grand bargain” on deficit reduction — even if the tax increases are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stopthepork.com/2011/03/grover-norquist-%e2%80%98earmarks-are-thee-broken-windows-of-overspending/</link>
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		<title>House Appropriator: We Know How to Get Around Earmark Ban</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Daniel Strauss The Hill A House Democrat indicated Thursday that lawmakers are getting around the new ban on earmarks by convincing Obama administration officials to fund their pet projects. Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.), an appropriator, made the remarks during an appearance on C-SPAN&#8217;s &#8220;Washington Journal&#8221; program. In response to a question about whether earmark [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stopthepork.com/2011/03/house-appropriator-we-know-how-to-get-around-earmark-ban/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Earmark Slush Funds&#8217; Targeted in House&#8217;s Interim $4B Trim</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Jack Gruber USA TODAY WASHINGTON — The stopgap spending plan the House of Representatives plans to vote on today cuts $4 billion from this year&#8217;s budget, including $2.7 billion in special projects known as &#8220;earmarks&#8221; that almost nobody planned on spending anyway. It&#8217;s a fraction of the $61 billion that House Republicans want to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stopthepork.com/2011/03/earmark-slush-funds-targeted-in-houses-interim-4b-trim/</link>
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		<title>Happy Stimulus Day! How’s That Working Out For You?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two years ago today, President Obama signed into law a "stimulus package" that his administration promised would keep unemployment under 8 percent. What has been the result of nearly $1 trillion spent on the so-called "stimulus?" Twenty-one months of unemployment at or above 9 percent, 2.6 million jobs lost, unsustainable budget deficits and an ever-growing national debt.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stopthepork.com/2011/02/happy-stimulus-day-how%e2%80%99s-that-working-out-for-you/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Earmarks&#8217; to nowhere: States losing billions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During the past 20 years, orphan earmarks reduced the amount of money that states would have received in federal highway funding by about $7.5 billion, USA TODAY found. That's $7.5 billion that states could have used to replace obsolete bridges, repair aging roads and bring jobs to rural areas.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stopthepork.com/2011/01/earmarks-to-nowhere-states-losing-billions/</link>
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		<title>Congress&#8217; Pork-Laden Christmas List</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Republicans dashed Democrats’ hopes for a last-minute deal to allow passage of a $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill for all of fiscal 2011. The omnibus reportedly contained more than 6,000 earmarks totaling more than $8 billion in pork-barrel projects including beaver management in North Carolina, mosquito trapping research in Florida, and salt pond restoration in San Francisco.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stopthepork.com/2010/12/419/</link>
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