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Tom Schatz talked about congressional earmarks. Members of the 110th Congress allocated more than 7 billion dollars to earmarks in the 2008 spending bills enacted during the week, with a tot…

The Federal Financial Management, Government Information, and International Security Subcommittee of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held a hearing on legisla…

The Americans for Prosperity Foundation held a press conference to start a nationwide grassroots bus tour, the “Ending Earmarks Express.” The bus would tour sites that have received questio…

Participants spoke to reporters about tax policy, federal spending levels, wasteful programs, burdens placed on middle and working class tax payers, and various reform proposals. They also a…

Mr. Schatz and Senators McCain and DeMint and Representative Flake spoke to reporters about an annual report on government spending programs contained in the Congressional “Pig Book.” Follow…

Mr. Schatz talked about his organization’s annual report on pork-barrel spending in the federal budget. The Congressional Pig Book released the previous day includes projects found mostly in…

Participants talked about fiscal conservatism and government spending priorities during a portion of the 34th annual Conservative Political Action Conference titled “Congress: Have the Big S…