Coburn’s ‘Wiki-earmarks’ service highlights omnibus pork

Published December 16, 2010 5:00am ET



Sen. Tom Coburn, R-OK, has performed a public service by compiling and posting on his official web site a spreadsheet containing information and data about all of the more than 6,600 earmarks requested by Democrats and Republicans for the $1.2 trillion Omnibus Spending bill.

That’s the massive last-minute banzai bill concocted by Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Daniel Inouye, D-HI, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made sure the 111th Congress failed to adopt a 2011 federal budget as required by law and the Constitution.

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