WASHINGTON, March 11 (UPI) -- The $410 billion budget -- criticized for its scope in spending and earmarks -- was signed Wednesday by President Barack Obama.
WASHINGTON, March 8 (UPI) -- U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said Sunday that Democratic leaders will propose an overhaul to the way congressional earmarks are handled in spending bills.
WASHINGTON, March 6 (UPI) -- Congress on Friday approved a stopgap budget resolution to avert a federal government shutdown for another five days.
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, 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.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 (UPI) -- U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., helped get more than $340 million worth of home-state projects in last year's federal spending bills.
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.
WICHITA, Kan., June 16 (UPI) -- President Bush, in his weekly radio address Saturday, accused congressional Democrats of adopting a budget requiring U.S. taxpayers to pay more.
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, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- U.S. Democratic leaders, completing business unfinished by the last Congress, agreed to a $463 billion spending plan for the rest of the fiscal year.
