Encore for the OMB Earmarks Database

The next steps for the OMB earmarks database team are clear and easily accomplished -- moving quickly to add the FY 2006 earmarks to the database, this time including earmarks requested by the Bush administration. How easy would it be to do this? Well, a quick look at the Congressional Research Service memo of March 6, entitled "Earmarks in the FY 2006 Appropriation Acts," obtained by OMB Watch, suggests that it's already been done.
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