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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>Holder faces House Republicans over health-care law, ‘Fast and Furious’</title>
		<link>http://PositiveReform.com/11547/</link>
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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>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Dead federal retirees are paid $120 million annually, report says</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 12:54:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ed O’Keefe: September 22 The federal government pays out millions of dollars to dead people each year — including deceased retired federal workers, according to a new report. In the past five years, the Office of Personnel Management has made more than $601 million in benefits payments to deceased federal annuitants, according to the [...]]]></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>Hillary &#8220;whatever&#8221; Clinton toots her own horn for a plague.</title>
		<link>http://PositiveReform.com/11380/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Clinton plaque is returning, for now, to the Ronald Reagan Building By Al Kamen Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, December 14, 2010; 10:36 PM Twelve years ago, the U.S. Agency for International Development turned its lobby in the Ronald Reagan Building into a shrine to then-first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. Its centerpiece was an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate spending bill contains thousands of earmarks</title>
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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>Reid threatens to keep Congress into next year: New spending bill totals $575.13 million per page</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 16:59:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Stephen Dinan The Washington Times Tuesday, December 14, 2010 Forget about going quietly into the night. Senate Democrats on Tuesday unveiled a broad agenda for an end-of-session sprint that, in other years, could be a whole year&#8217;s worth of activity — ranging from an arms-reduction treaty with Russia to a major immigration bill to [...]]]></description>
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