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Era Of House Self-Disclosure of Earmark Requests Begins

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Friday, February 20th, 2009

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By Emelie Rutherford As soon as today House members may start posting on their Web sites requests to earmark funds for specific projects in appropriations bills, a process intended to provide more budgeting openness about which some watchdogs remain skeptical. Fiscal year 2010 earmark requests can be submitted to the House Appropriations Committee's (HAC) online system starting today, and under new rules this year lawmakers also must post details about those potential earmarks on their Web sites the day the…

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Hegseth Pushes For Reconciliation With At Least $350 Billion For Defense ‘Regardless’ Of Midterms Outcome

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday the Trump administration plans to continue its push for at least $350 billion in defense funds via the reconciliation process “regardless of what happens […]

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Bipartisan Push in Senate to Hasten Export of 155 mm, GMLRS, HIMARS for Ukraine

A small, bipartisan group of senators is backing the Fast Tracking European Investment in Ukraine’s Defense Act, S. 5175, to hasten the export of allied buys of U.S. munitions for […]

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Rep. Himes Signals Increased Contractor Oversight, if Democrats Win House

Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), the ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, plans to increase the committee’s contractor oversight if the Democrats win control of the House […]

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CBO Estimates Loss of One-Half to Two-Thirds of U.S. Missile Interceptors Since June Last Year

A new Congressional Budget Office report estimates the cost of the Iran war through Aug. 1 as $38 billion and says that the U.S. has likely depleted between one-half and […]