Senate Democrats unveiled a $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill yesterday.  The bill is over 1,900 pages in length.  Taxpayers for Common Sense found the bill contained roughly 6,700 Congressionally directed earmarks worth $8.3 billion.  

Some of the earmarks identified by TCS staff can be viewed: HERE

FY 2011 Earmarks Request Database: 39,294 requests worth $130 Billion

(Disclaimer: The request database was made up of the individual lawmaker requests filed in March/April. It was gleaned from each members web site. Therefore if 4 lawmakers requested the same $1M earmark, it would show up as 4 requests worth $4M (total). The Omnibus database (link) comes from the final bill – so that scenario would show 1 earmark worth $1M. Both are valuable, related, but different data sets. TCS will work to marry the two data sets in the future.)

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Here are a couple clips from last nights news programs mentioning Taxpayers for Common Sense and our work:

CSPAN Washington Journal:

CBS News: Katie Couric

CNN: Anderson Cooper 360:

NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams:

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