16th District Congressman Don Manzullo is calling on former colleague Ray LaHood, for a favor. LaHood is now Barack Obama’s Department of Transportation Secretary, to earmark high speed rail money for a new Amtrak route to Rockford and beyond. Here’s … Continue reading
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Again thanks to Taxpayers for Common Sense, McHenry County Blog can give you an idea what pork in this year’s congressional budget looks like. We continue in alphabetical order. Today we are reaching the middle of the alphabetical. We cover … Continue reading
Taxpayers for Common Sense have totaled up the congressional earmarks in the budget bill being voted on this week. I was reminded of that when I read an editorial cartoon sent to me by my Joplin, Missouri, brother-in-law. It was … Continue reading
Barge users get subsidized transportation from the Corps of Engineers on the Mississippi River. Army engineers get to stay on the payroll. Past environmental sins like the creek that flowed past the old Chicago Stockyards called Bubbly Creek has money … Continue reading
For the last three days, we have listed the pork found in the Transportation and Housing and Urban Development part of this year’s budget found because Taxpayers for Common Sense posted such congressional earmarks. The whole list for this part … Continue reading
No surprise there. We just don’t have a lot of bases. We grow corn to feed pigs. Here’s what I found on the Taxpayers for Common Sense web site for Military Construction and Veterans Affairs. Just four projects: Defense-Wide $13,977,000 … Continue reading
Below are the Illinois congressional earmarks in the Department of Agriculture budget. Again, one of the major sponsors, Peoria’s Ray LaHood is no longer in Congress. Ag $188,000 Durbin – Natural Resources Conservation Service, Illinois River Water Conservation, Illinois Department … Continue reading
There is pork all over the budget that just passed in Washington. One of the stranger aspects is that retired legislators are getting credit for earmarks. The one from Illinois who shows up most is Peoria’s Ray LaHood, now President … Continue reading
Looking at the web site of Taxpayers for Common Sense is a list in the Defense appropriation bill. We published the list from the Commerce, Justice and Science bill yesterday. Again, nothing I can see for McHenry County, but Republican … Continue reading
One of the issues that Don Manzullo attacked his one-term Democratic Party opponent on in 1992 was spending taxpayer dollars to promote himself. Congressmen are low profile folks in huge metropolitan areas. They don’t get their names in the paper … Continue reading
One of the issues that Don Manzullo attacked his one-term Democratic Party opponent on in 1992 was spending taxpayer dollars to promote himself. Congressmen are low profile folks in huge metropolitan areas. They don’t get their names in the paper … Continue reading
Illinois foremost advocate of comity among Republicans and Democrats, Congressman Ray LaHood (R-Peoria), watched the Sox game in Senator Dick Durbin’s Washington office with Senator Barak Obama and Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, according to WGN-TV. No other Republicans were reported … Continue reading
Illinois foremost advocate of comity among Republicans and Democrats, Congressman Ray LaHood (R-Peoria), watched the Sox game in Senator Dick Durbin’s Washington office with Senator Barack Obama and Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, according to WGN-TV. No other Republicans were reported … Continue reading