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Posts Tagged ‘omnibus spending bill’

  • Pork Chalks Up Two More Victories

    Posted February 26th, 2009 at 3:23pm in Ongoing Priorities 21

    Yet another controversy involving Congressional earmarks is brewing in Washington. This time around a lobbying firm, the PMA group (raided by the FBI in November), is accused of making fraudulent donations to members of Congress in exchange for federal pork directed toward their clients. Given mounting news reports of scandal involving earmarks, you’d think Members of [...] More

  • Voices of School Choice

    Posted February 24th, 2009 at 5:04pm in Education 20

    Some worried D.C. schoolchildren recently asked President Obama to continue the highly successful D.C . Opportunity Scholarship Program.  The program, which allows parents the choice to to take their children out of  failing public schools,  is in danger of being scrapped completely after the 2010 school year. Ignoring the pleas of these children and others, a measure [...] More