WASHINGTON, March 3 (UPI) -- U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., ripped President Barack Obama for not taking a hard line against thousands of earmarks in a $410 billion omnibus spending bill.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 (UPI) -- U.S. House of Representatives Republicans voiced complaints about a $410 billion appropriations bill, saying it contains unnecessary spending on pet projects.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- The Democrat-dominated U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday voted 245-178 to send a $410 billion omnibus appropriations bill to the Senate.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- A budget watchdog group says earmarks in this year's spending bill moving through the U.S. Congress account for $6.6 billion of the bill's $630 billion total.
WACO, Texas, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- U.S. President George W. Bush Wednesday signed the omnibus spending bill, but chastised Congress for including $10 billion in earmarks in the measure.
WASHINGTON, May 21 (UPI) -- The Democrats in control of the U.S. Congress are slipping pet projects into big spending bills just like the Republicans used to.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- The U.S. House Wednesday approved an extension of federal government funding until Dec. 8. House Democrats temporarily blocked a repeal of a controversial tax provision in the $388 billion 2005 omnibus-spending bill approved Saturday, citing the way they
WASHINGTON, July 15 (UPI) -- U.S. Senate Republican leaders will try to pass a large catch-all 2005 omnibus appropriations bill when Congress returns in September.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M. will offer a scaled-back version of failed GOP energy legislation as an amendment to the pending transportation spending bill.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (UPI) --
