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Over 30 Members of the House have issued a letter to the Republican Leadership encouraging them to hold the line against the ballooning "emergency" supplemental being ironed out  by Senate and House negotiators.  While the House version's price tag is in line with the President's request, the Senate's version contains an additional $14 billion in pork-barrel spending.  The letter singles out "one particularly egregious earmark" that would give the state of Mississippi $700 million to move a railroad that was recently repaired for $250 million following Hurricane Katrina.   


Date Title
5/25/06 Coburn To Investigate Congressional Violations
5/24/06 Earmarks infection
5/22/06 Railroad Earmark Cut From Supplemental
5/22/06 Supplemental Negotiators Likely To Drop Miss. Rail Project
5/22/06 Republican Clash Over Earmarks Gets Ugly
5/22/06 AIDS Vaccine Testing Goes Overseas
5/22/06 Editorial: Ship of Pork
5/19/06 Dr. Coburn Addresses global malaria control experts at United Nations
5/18/06 Editorial: It is time to give Coburn knife, help cut away the pork
5/18/06 They'd Sooner Fix Medicaid
5/18/06 ABC World News Tonight - U.S. Air Force Probe
5/17/06 Playing Politics with Government Contracts
5/17/06 Immigration bill survives changes in Senate
5/17/06 Senate rejects border security plan
5/16/06 Divide Remains as Bush Pushes Immigration Plan
5/16/06 President Bush calls for Guard deployment to gain border control
5/15/06 "New Guidelines for AIDS Testing"
5/15/06 Rep. Calvert's Land of Plenty
5/15/06 Dept. of Justice Signals Wider Probe
5/15/06 West Virginia Democrat is Scrutinized
5/15/06 Opinion: 1 small step against corporate welfare
5/14/06 In Kentucky Hills, a Homeland Security Bonanza
5/13/06 Rep. Cunningham's Plea Was Only the Start
5/12/06 Editorial: Republicans and Spending
5/12/06 House Appropriations Chairman Subject of Earmarks Investigation
5/11/06 House Appropriations Chairman Surfaces in Probe of Cunningham
5/11/06 Loopholes in earmark reform bills
5/11/06 Opinion: Don't defund troops for pork
5/11/06 Coburn seeks slash in federal spending
5/10/06 Current record
5/9/06 In Congress, a GOP face-off over 'pork'
5/6/06 Editorial: Will Bush finally use veto power on spending?
5/6/06 Coburn sees victories in spending fight
5/4/06 Oklahoma Senator Tugs at Beloved 'Earmarks'
5/4/06 Opinion: How to Soak the Rich (the George Bush Way)
5/4/06 Coburn Brings Common Sense to Senate
5/4/06 Editorial: Prodigal State
5/3/06 Emergency vs. Pork Spending
5/3/06 Editorial: Potent Coburn
5/2/06 Editorial: Senate going hog wild
5/2/06 Bold Bid To Cut 'Pork' In Congress
5/2/06 Spending Hawks are ‘making their point, slowly but surely’
5/2/06 Northrop Seeks Navy Aid for Losses
5/1/06 Crime victims fund targeted
5/1/06 Trail of Tears: 'It wasn't just a story'
5/1/06 Opinion: Casting off appropriators' tyranny