U.S. Congress - H.R.5258 Earmark Transparency Act of 2010
H.R.5258 - Earmark Transparency Act of 2010
To amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require Congress to establish a unified and searchable database on a public website for congressional earmarks. view all titles (2)
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- Official: To amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require Congress to establish a unified and searchable database on a public website for congressional earmarks. as introduced.
- Short: Earmark Transparency Act of 2010 as introduced.
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5/11/2010--Introduced.Earmark Transparency Act of 2010 - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require the Clerk of the House of Representatives and the Secretary of the Senate to establish jointly a free public searchable website, listing all requests by Members of Congress for cOfficial Summary
5/11/2010--Introduced.Earmark Transparency Act of 2010 - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require the Clerk of the House of Representatives and the Secretary of the Senate to establish jointly a free public searchable website, listing all requests by Members of Congress for congressionally directed spending items (congressional earmarks). Requires each congressional committee, within five calendar days of receipt of a request for a congressional earmark from a Member of Congress, to provide to the Clerk and the Secretary, as applicable, the initial required information regarding that request that is required to be placed on the website. Makes it out of order to consider any legislation unless it meets the requirements of this Act....Read the Rest
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It's Time For Earmark Transparency — Sunlight Foundation Blog
As Paul just noted, the Senate just rejected a ban on earmarks.
It's Time For Earmark Transparency « News That Matters
As Paul just noted, the Senate just rejected a ban on earmarks. In the absence of an outright, Congress-wide ban on earmarks, tracking earmarks and earmark requests becomes far more important. Regardless of who else abstains from ...
It Ain't Easy Tracking Earmarks
That's why the Sunlight Foundation supports the Earmark Transparency Act (HR 5258 and S 3335), which would require Congress to make all earmark information available in one central location with all of the data that we need to figure ...
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