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Mon Oct 27

• Bennett reveals earmark recipients: For the first time, Utah Sen. Bob Bennett has voluntarily released the names of private companies that will receive millions of dollars in taxpayer money because of defense earmarks he requested.
• Senator got $2.7m to pave friend's road: Just 0.7 miles long, Crow Creek Road isn't a road to nowhere. It runs straight to the Double Musky Inn, a Cajun bistro owned by a Bob Persons, a close friend of Alaska Senator Ted Stevens.

Fri Oct 17

• Bishop pockets another big donation from company he helped: Rep. Rob Bishop has secured millions of dollars in congressional earmarks that benefit a small engineering firm, whose executives continue to contribute heavily to the Utah Republican 9;s re-election efforts.

Tue Oct 14

• Duncan Hunter's earmarks benefit his son: Defense contractors who received millions of dollars in government earmarks arranged by Rep. Duncan Hunter are now helping to fill the campaign coffers of his son, who is seeking the San Diego-area congressional seat being vacated by his father after 28 years, records show.

Mon Oct 6

• Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart's earmarks raise eyebrows: Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart has procured millions in federal funding to benefit a small Miami-Dade defense-contra cting group that has donated tens of thousands of dollars to his political campaign and that of his brother, fellow U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart.
• Miami-Dade contractors employed Capitol Hill lobbyist: Medley defense contractors who won millions in federal earmarks through Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart employed a Capitol Hill lobbyist who pleaded guilty recently in an unfolding congressional corruption probe.

Fri Sep 26

• New Billions in Earmarks Approach Enactment: As Congress tried to cobble together a plan to spend huge sums on a financial bailout, lawmakers also moved Thursday toward final approval of an omnibus spending bill with more than 2,300 pet projects, including a $2 million study of animal hibernation.
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Thu Sep 25

• Earmarks Pass by the Thousands; Foes Fume: With the focus on the $700 billion Wall Street bailout, appropriators quietly executed an end run around challenges to the thousands of earmarks slipped in the must-pass, year-end spending bill.

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