Obama “No More Earmarks”/Another Promise Broken

President Barack Obama has signed into law a $1.1 trillion bill that increases the budgets in many areas of the government by about 10 percent, including health, law enforcement and veterans’ programs.

The bill lumps together six of the 12 annual appropriations bills for the 2010 budget year that began Oct. 1.

Most Republicans opposed the bill, citing runaway federal spending. They also pointed to an estimated $3.9 billion for more than 5,000 local projects sought by lawmakers from both parties.

via Obama signs $1.1 trillion spending bill into law – Yahoo! News.

Memo to Yahoo News: “local projects sought by lawmakers” are generally known as “earmarks.”

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