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, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Despite vows to slash pet-project spending, Congress's $555 billion spending bill and $459 billion defense budget contain earmarks for 11,000 such items.
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, May 5 (UPI) -- The U.S. Senate has approved an expanded $109 billion emergency spending bill that the House speaker says is "dead on arrival" in his chamber.
WASHINGTON, March 22 (UPI) -- After weeks of delays, House transportation leaders have agreed to a $275 billion highway construction bill, but the measure still faces hurdles.
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