February 21, 2012

Did The Obama Administration Funnel Federal Dollars To Lawmakers To ‘Buy’ Votes On Legislation?

Did The Obama Administration Funnel Federal Dollars To Lawmakers To 'Buy' Votes On Legislation?

This morning the Heritage Foundation’s investigative reporters, Rob Bluey and Lachlan Markay, published an interesting article alleging that the Obama administration allocated federal dollars in a way so as to “buy” the votes of Congressional legislators on certain key pieces of legislation. The authors focus on the discretionary budgets of various federal agencies, which can
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February 7, 2012

Bipartisan Bonanza: Both Dem And GOP Congressmen Spent Taxpayer Money On Beaches Near Their Homes

Today, the Washington Post  — drawing on publicly available data as well as research by conservative author Peter Schweitzer — published an interactive map showing how 33 members of Congress “helped direct more than $300 million in earmarks to dozens of public projects for work in close proximity to commercial and residential real estate owned
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