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Have You Ever Seen An Earmark?
There has been a lot of talk during the presidential campaigns and since the inauguration of President Obama about Congressional earmarks in appropriations legislation. Have you ever seen an earmark? If not, click on this link to the House Appropriations Committee home page and you can see 9,000 of them:
http://appropriations.house.gov/FY2009_consolidated.shtml
The link will take you to a listing of the various portions of the $410 billion omnibus appropriation bill pending in the House of Representatives for fiscal year 2009. Congress has to pass this bill before the end of March to avoid a government shutdown. After each section of the bill you will see a line that looks like this:
Summary | Bill | Statement | Certification Letters
Click on "Certification Letters." These letters are the "earmarks" everyone has been talking about. They are requests by individual Senators and Representatives that money be set aside out of the appropriations for specific projects. Note well that the letters do not specify how much is being requested in the earmark.
If you are looking for specific projects in your locality to bid on, scroll through the 9,000 earmarks in this bill and find the letterhead of your own Senators or Congressman, and the letter will identify the project money is being earmarked for.
Happy Hunting!
There has been a lot of talk during the presidential campaigns and since the inauguration of President Obama about Congressional earmarks in appropriations legislation. Have you ever seen an earmark? If not, click on this link to the House Appropriations Committee home page and you can see 9,000 of them:
http://appropriations.house.gov/FY2009_consolidated.shtml
The link will take you to a listing of the various portions of the $410 billion omnibus appropriation bill pending in the House of Representatives for fiscal year 2009. Congress has to pass this bill before the end of March to avoid a government shutdown. After each section of the bill you will see a line that looks like this:
Summary | Bill | Statement | Certification Letters
Click on "Certification Letters." These letters are the "earmarks" everyone has been talking about. They are requests by individual Senators and Representatives that money be set aside out of the appropriations for specific projects. Note well that the letters do not specify how much is being requested in the earmark.
If you are looking for specific projects in your locality to bid on, scroll through the 9,000 earmarks in this bill and find the letterhead of your own Senators or Congressman, and the letter will identify the project money is being earmarked for.
Happy Hunting!
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Permalink Reply by vichi on -
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Permalink Reply by Nichole Rey on -
Hi,
I'm a member of this networking site for almost a month but it is my first time to join in a discussion forum. Well anyway, in your question regarding to the topic of construction project earmarks, the question "Have You Ever Seen An Earmark?", honestly speaking I haven't seen yet this earmark that are you're talking about. It is possible to explain this earmark that you’re talking of?Thanks and more power.
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