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		<title>Congressional earmarks sometimes used to fund projects near lawmakers&#8217; properties</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By David S. Fallis, Scott Higham and Kimberly Kindy, Published: February 6 A U.S. senator from Alabama directed more than $100 million in federal earmarks to renovate downtown Tuscaloosa near his own commercial office building. A congressman from Georgia secured $6.3 million in taxpayer funds to replenish the beach about 900 feet from his island [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama denounces Senate vote to block Cordray at consumer watchdog agency</title>
		<link>http://PositiveReform.com/11546/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 13:48:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reference: Issues concerning past Obama Nominees By David Nakamura and Ylan Q. Mui, Published: December 8 An agitated President Obama accused congressional Republicans on Thursday of not standing up for ordinary Americans after the Senate derailed his nominee to head a new federal consumer protection agency. At a brief news conference, the president charged that his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holder faces House Republicans over health-care law, ‘Fast and Furious’</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jerry Markon, Published: December 8 Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. clashed with congressional Republicans on Thursday, defending the Justice Department in the face of criticism of its “Fast and Furious” gun-trafficking sting and its refusal to turn over documents on the health-care law adopted last year. Under exhaustive questioning from the House Judiciary Committee, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The supercommittee failed because Democrats insisted on $1 trillion in new taxes</title>
		<link>http://PositiveReform.com/11543/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jon Kyl, Rob Portman, Pat Toomey, Jeb Hensarling, Fred Upton and Dave Camp, Published: November 25 We do not choose to add more to the blame game for failure of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction , but one Democratic talking point needs debunking: that the talks failed because of Republicans’ attachment to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supercommittee announces failure in effort to tame debt</title>
		<link>http://PositiveReform.com/11541/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Lori Montgomery and Paul Kane, Published: November 21 A special congressional committee created to try to curb the national debt abandoned its work and conceded failure Monday, the latest setback in a long effort by Washington to overcome ideological differences and stem the rising tide of red ink. In a joint statement issued hours before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 111th Congress&#8217;s Final Insult to America</title>
		<link>http://PositiveReform.com/11392/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 16:17:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bluto Blutarsky must have been an Appropriator. The 111th Congress began with an $814 billion stimulus that blew out the federal balance sheet, so we suppose it&#8217;s only fitting that the Members want to exit by passing a 1,924-page, $1.2 trillion omnibus spending bill. The worst Congress in modern history is true to its essence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate spending bill contains thousands of earmarks</title>
		<link>http://PositiveReform.com/11357/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 17:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FY 2011 Omnibus Appropriations Act Full Text By Philip Rucker and Paul Kane Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, December 15, 2010; 12:00 AM Weeks after swearing off earmarks, many senators stand to gain tens of millions of dollars for pet projects in a massive spending bill that could be their last chance at the money [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harry Reid&#8217;s Holiday Jam: What the Senate wants to pass while you&#8217;re not paying attention.</title>
		<link>http://PositiveReform.com/11352/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 17:16:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the famous formulation often attributed to George Washington, the U.S. Senate is the saucer designed to cool the drink before it becomes law. In Majority Leader Harry Reid&#8217;s rush to beat the looming expiration of the 111th Congress, the Senate has become the express lane to jam through changes in military rules, a giant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As U.S. assesses Afghan war, Karzai a question mark</title>
		<link>http://PositiveReform.com/11317/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rajiv Chandrasekaran -Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, December 13, 2010; 12:00 AM KABUL &#8211; Afghan President Hamid Karzai had heard enough. For more than an hour, Gen. David H. Petraeus, U.S. Ambassador Karl W. Eikenberry and other top Western officials in Kabul urged Karzai to delay implementing a ban on private security firms. Reconstruction [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emptying the pork barrel would hit some states especially hard</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Pamela M. Prah &#8211; Stateline.org Sunday, December 12, 2010; 6:26 PM Some states seem to have earmarks written all over them. Say the word and most people think of Alaska&#8217;s &#8220;Bridge to Nowhere.&#8221; West Virginia is well-known for having drawn billions in earmarked projects through the efforts of the &#8220;king of pork,&#8221; the late [...]]]></description>
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