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James Butler digs into pork and political payoffs in the Tennessee state budget in a piece at ClarksvilleOnline.com headlined The true cost of pork spending.

Corruption also rears its ugly head in Tennessee, at least last year. Rep.

PiTW has the news on the House Appropriation Committee's rejection along partisan lines of Jim Coopers attempts at bipartisan accords on cutting spending.  Jeff Woods wants to know if Middle Tennessee can have its earmarks back now.  Did we ever deserve to lose them in the name of bipartisa

Earmark Disclosures, 2009

Below is a list of lawmakers who disclose their earmark requests online. We'll continue to update the chart with your help.

Marsha Blackburn on earmarks

Rep. Marsha Blackburn is among Capitol Hill’s most vocal critics of earmarks.

Two Tennessee Congressmen, a Republican and a Democrat, defend the practice of earmarking some deride as pork:

We’ve been talking extensively today about the current debate of the Lieberman-Warner-Destroy-The-American-Economy Climate Legislation. We talked with Brian Kennedy from Institute for Energy Research as well about the bill prospects.  I’ll write more later, but check out their website.  They have lots of good info.

Democrats don't miss a trick when it comes to killing the unborn.

from the American Conservative Union

Vote "NO" on the Farm Bill

Summary: Guests include Congressman Jim “Coop” Cooper of Tennessee’s Fightin’ 5th!, Rachel Smolker, a research biologist at the Global Justice

Senator Hillary Clinton has requested $2.3 billion in earmarks for next fiscal year, making her by far the top porker. Remember, Democrats criticized earmarks when the GOP had control of Congress, and promised to end them.