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<title>Inbox Robot: Senate Committee on Appropriations News</title>
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<title>The Charleston Gazette: Earmarks</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=186807451</link>
<pubDate>6 Sep 2008 11:00 GMT</pubDate>
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...  repairs. Palin got those boons for Wasilla while Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, chaired the Senate Appropriations Committee. (Today, Stevens is facing trial for accepting $250,000 in unreported personal gifts.) Steve Ellis,  ...
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<title>Shelby Announces Over $1 Million for University of Alabama at Birmingham</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=186796336</link>
<pubDate>6 Sep 2008 06:02 GMT</pubDate>
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...  of Alabama at Birmingham U.S. Senator Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will award $1,090,189  ...
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<title>Shelby Announces $486,520 for the University of Alabama</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=186796331</link>
<pubDate>6 Sep 2008 06:02 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the University of Alabama U.S. Senator Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced that the Department of Transportation&apos;s Federal Transit Administration has awarded $486,250 to  ...
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<title>ROCKEFELLER, BYRD ANNOUNCE $237,500 IN GRANT FUNDS FOR GLASGOW VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=186795453</link>
<pubDate>6 Sep 2008 05:58 GMT</pubDate>
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...  and for other first responder grant programs as well; and Byrd, Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, has championed efforts to ensure funding and resources for America&amp;rsquo;s first responders. President Bush&amp;rsquo;s  ...
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<title>State GOP chairman looking national?</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=186767250</link>
<pubDate>6 Sep 2008 01:27 GMT</pubDate>
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...  to Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), who long controlled federal spending as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. He made funneling money to Alaska his hallmark. Alaska, by the way, ranked #1  ...
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<title>Robert Scheer: Palin&apos;s state doesn&apos;t feel the pain</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=186638584</link>
<pubDate>5 Sep 2008 10:32 GMT</pubDate>
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...  times larger. It obviously helped to have Alaska&apos;s now-indicted senator as chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee. And despite McCain&apos;s claims that Palin has distinguished herself by breaking with Alaska&apos;s discredited  ...
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<title>Alaska leads in pork per person</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=186624545</link>
<pubDate>5 Sep 2008 04:52 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Steven W. Silver, a former top aide to Stevens, who was chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee on and off between 1997 and 2005. The firm initially was paid $24,000 a  ...
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<title>Fiscal 2009 Appropriations Requests</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=186620736</link>
<pubDate>5 Sep 2008 04:46 GMT</pubDate>
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...  are submitted within the rules of the Senate and within the deadlines of the Senate Appropriations Committee. All request forms and support letters for the Fiscal Year 2009 appropriations process were  ...
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<title>Hillary coming to Tampa, Orlando</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=186594740</link>
<pubDate>5 Sep 2008 00:46 GMT</pubDate>
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...  to Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), who long controlled federal spending as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. He made funneling money to Alaska his hallmark. Alaska, by the way, ranked #1  ...
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<title>N. Dakota oil pipeline capacity limited as production, imports climb</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=186580693</link>
<pubDate>4 Sep 2008 22:26 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the region, not enough to limit constraints or accommodate future increases,&quot; he told the Senate Appropriations Committee&apos;s Energy and Water Subcommittee at a field hearing in Bismarck, ND. FERC supports energy  ...
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<title>RNC Chairman Jim Greer</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=186578719</link>
<pubDate>4 Sep 2008 22:06 GMT</pubDate>
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...  to Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), who long controlled federal spending as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. He made funneling money to Alaska his hallmark. Alaska, by the way, ranked #1  ...
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<title>Drill, Baby, Drill: The Reality of the McCain-Palin Plan</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=186537270</link>
<pubDate>4 Sep 2008 17:29 GMT</pubDate>
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...  as far as Louisiana is concerned.&quot; But a May 8, 2006, report to the Senate Appropriations Committee from the U.S. Coast Guard claims plenty of oil hit the Gulf as a  ...
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<title>Work could start on new 9-1-1 dispatch center this fall</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=186509696</link>
<pubDate>4 Sep 2008 14:32 GMT</pubDate>
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...  services into one location also got a $700,000 boost from Congress in July. The Senate Appropriations Committee approved a bill that includes money for the city of Medford to spend on  ...
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<title>The world still needs the Voice of America</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=186504702</link>
<pubDate>4 Sep 2008 14:20 GMT</pubDate>
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...  &quot;dismantling&quot; of the agency. In July Congress attempted to stop even more cuts. The Senate Appropriations Committee condemned the BBG&apos;s latest budget request, which would have eliminated VOA&apos;s Russian language programs,  ...
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<title>Palin&apos;s earmark requests: more per person than any other state</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=186460450</link>
<pubDate>4 Sep 2008 10:28 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Silver, a former aide to Stevens, then the ultimate rainmaker as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. &quot;She was hungry for earmarks just like everybody else,&quot; said Larry Persily, who worked  ...
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