U.S. Congress - S.3335 Earmark Transparency Act
S.3335 - Earmark Transparency Act
A bill to require Congress to establish a unified and searchable database on a public website for congressional earmarks as called for by the President in his 2010 State of the Union Address to Congress. view all titles (2)
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- Official: A bill to require Congress to establish a unified and searchable database on a public website for congressional earmarks as called for by the President in his 2010 State of the Union Address to Congress. as introduced.
- Short: Earmark Transparency Act as introduced.
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OpenCongress Summary
Would require the Clerk of the House and Secretary of the Senate to form a free, public, searchable website with data on all earmark requests made available within five days. See also: H.R.5258.Official Summary
5/11/2010--Introduced.Earmark Transparency Act - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require the Clerk of the House of Representatives, in coordination with the Secretary of the Senate, to insure the existence of a single free public searchable website that specifies certain ideOfficial Summary
5/11/2010--Introduced.Earmark Transparency Act - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require the Clerk of the House of Representatives, in coordination with the Secretary of the Senate, to insure the existence of a single free public searchable website that specifies certain identifying information relating to each request by Members of Congress for congressionally directed spending items (congressional earmarks). Requires a request for a congressional earmark from a Member of Congress to be made available on the website within five days of its receipt by a congressional committee....Read the Rest
Recent News Coverage
For-Profits Use Nonprofit Structure to Avoid Earmark Ban
The Earmark Transparency Act (HR 5258 and S. 3335) would allow the public to more easily take notice of the earmarking process. ...
Cybersecurity bill clears Senate hurdle
Deferred action on S. 3335, the Earmark Transparency Act. The bill's author, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), says the measure would essentially fulfill a request ...
Sunlight Foundation Reporting Group: Levin and Coburn, toe to toe on Earmark Transparency Bill
...said that aggregating thousands of earmark requests on a website would be burdensome and unworkable. Coburn introduced the bill, S.3335, last month which would require a centralized, detailed, downloadable database that would track every earmark that me
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S.3335: Jobs, Energy, Families, and Disaster Relief ... - OpenCongress
S.3335 - Jobs, Energy, Families, and Disaster Relief Act of 2008. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend certain expiring provisions, and for other purposes. view all titles (2). Close ... -
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Vote 192: On the Cloture Motion: Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Proceed to Consider S.3335; Jobs, Energy, Families, and Disaster Relief Act of 2008. Not Voting No Yes 7/30/08. Vote 191: On the Cloture Motion: Motion to Invoke ...
Lobbyists Upset About Demint Earmark Ban | RedState
The Earmark Disclosure Act in the Senate, (S. 3335) is cosponsored by Senators Coburn and Gillibrand. Senator Coburn's work on the ETA is clearly not motivated by a defense of the earmark process. ...
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