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OMB tracking billions in pork-project earmarks
April 6, 2007
Marketplace Radio
The U.S. Office of Management and Budget now has an online database of more than 13,000 congressional earmarks from the 2005 budget — $19 billion worth of pork benefitting some big companies. ... So Dana Chasin at OMB Watch wasn't surprised that more than two years after this money was appropriated, and presumably spent the White House can't tell us who ultimately received more than 600 earmarks worth about $800 million dollars. DANIELLE BRIAN: Isn’t it amazing? Danielle Brian, from the Project on Government Oversight, has tracked similar problems at the Pentagon for years. BRIAN: You know. A lot of time we don't know where our money is being spent. It's horrifying.
