Article: Rep. Flake Introduces Resolution Strengthening Point of Order Against Consideration of Legislation Containing Congressional Earmarks

Article: Rep. Sali Introduces Resolution Concerning Congressional ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  October 10, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... of the House of Representatives to strengthen the ... consideration of congressional earmarks." The resolution ... of the House of Representatives to strengthen the ... consideration of congressional earmarks, and for other ... of the House of Representatives is amended as follows ...

Transcript: Understanding Congressional Earmarks
NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday;  March 23, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Understanding Congressional Earmarks Host: LIANE HANSEN ... once again for congressional earmarks - those special ... Steve Chabot. Representative STEVE CHABOT ... Jim Moran. Representative JIM MORAN (Democrat ...

Article: Congressional earmarks are more than just ...
Corrections Today;  October 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... accomplished without these congressional earmarks. Although the news media ... accomplished without these congressional earmarks. In response to the criticism ... individual senators or representatives may receive several hundreds ...

Article: Rep. Fortenberry Introduces Bill Concerning Accountability for ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  January 15, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America ... ACCOUNTABILITY FOR EXPENDITURE OF CONGRESSIONAL EARMARKS.(a) Government Accountability ... the Rules of the House of Representatives;`(B) a list of `congressionally ...

Article: Congressional earmarks and pork barrel plitics
Journal of Allied Health;  October 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... taking action to obtain Congressional earmarks, a term often considered ... such spending, whereas Representative Henry Clay and Senator ... bipartisan group of U.S. Representatives, Senators, and taxpayer ... Chairman of the Porkbusters, Representative Ed Royce (R-CA) has ...

Article: [ Not all congressional 'earmarks' are bad... ]
Daily Breeze;  January 11, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Not all congressional 'earmarks' are bad We have lately heard ... majority support. The House of Representatives has just adopted a new rule ... of three senators and three representatives). In the 1980s, the U.S ...

Article: Era of congressional earmarks over ... or is it?
Sunday Gazette-Mail;  June 10, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... four massive spending bills, something was missing: congressional "earmarks." Long dismissed as pork, earmarks had more than quadrupled ... one of 12 appropriations subcommittees in the House of Representatives, is in the thick of the debate. "There will be earmarks ...