Blog gives road map to Maryland earmark requests
Maryland Politics Watch has compiled a useful list of earmark requests by various members of the Maryland congressional delegation. It also includes all the right caveats about asking not being the same as receiving.
What we can give you that MPW hasn't are easy-to-click links below.
The one member whose requests MPW didn't find were those of Rep. John Sarbanes, whose web folks need to work a little harder at transparency. Says MPW's Marc Korman: "John Sarbanes-Unable to identify appropriations from website. Press reports indicate it is buried within a grants announcement page, but I could not identity it."
Getting There found Sarbanes' transportation requests and other funding, but the congressman made it a struggle. See if you can find your way there from the home page.
Sen. Barbara Mikulski
Sen. Ben Cardin
Rep. Frank Kratovil
Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger
Rep. Donna Edwards
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer
Rep. Roscoe Bartlett
Rep. Elijah Cummings
Comments
Ok, that's nice information, but is anyone going to argue which transportation projects are bunk and which are legit? Or argue why the earmarks process should or shouldn't be used to fund those projects?
Posted by: Shaker | June 9, 2009 9:51 AM