House Reps Spent $20M on Mailings
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U.S. House members spent $20.3 million in tax money last year to send constituents what's often the government equivalent of junk mail
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An unexpected $10 million congressional earmark might seem like money from heaven for a fast-growing county needing billions for transportation improvements. Not when it comes to Coconut Road.
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WASHINGTON -- Mailing a letter will soon cost a penny more.
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The campaign fundraising figures reported by individual House and Senate candidates do not tell a complete or necessarily accurate story of the levels of campaign spending in their races. That is because outside playersÃ¢ÂÂ spending also is a major factor in virtually all of the most competitive races Ã¢ÂÂ including the money put in by the national partiesÃ¢ÂÂ campaign committees.
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Several members of Congress recently made news when they tried to see if they could subsist on $21 per week -- the average amount that food stamp recipients receive to supplement their income.
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Members of Congress can send letters by "franking" Â that is, putting their signature on the mail instead of postage. The cost is then charged to the members' office budgets and ultimately paid by taxpayers.
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WASHINGTON -- Democrats seeking votes for their Iraq-withdrawal plan have stuffed a war funding bill with billions of dollars for homeland security, healthcare, farms, New Orleans levees, home heating, and other causes.
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A Web site documenting the salaries of the roughly 20,000 Capitol Hill employees went live last week -- and almost as soon came crashing down.
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One of the house parties sponsored by the Republican candidate uses the Sept. 11 date for fund-raising.
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Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney spent almost $20.5 million in the second quarter on his campaign, nearly double the party front-runner Rudy Giuliani, according to election filings made public on Friday.
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A bipartisan accord in the House calls for a $150 billion spending plan, including significant tax rebates. But senators may want add-ons.
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Candidates who spent more than &#36;1 million of their own money trying to win election to Congress in 2004 struck out in nearly every case. Eight made it to the Nov. 2 election, but only one was victorious. The spenders, how much they spent and how they fared:
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A new campaign finance report filed with the Senate shows Sen. Larry Craig spent about $23,000 in campaign money on lawyers in his ethics investigation.
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Much of the nation&#39;s media makes it seem as if soft-money spending on campaign ads by the so-called &quot;shadow parties&quot; is a Republican thing.
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The Ministry of Defence has been accused of "massaging" savings it says it has made on its 20 biggest projects.
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The House, seizing a rare moment of bipartisanship to respond to the economyâs slump, overwhelmingly passed a $146 billion aid package that would speed rebates of $600-$1,200 to most taxpayers.
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WASHINGTON -- Twenty-two members of Congress signed a letter today demanding information on reports that FDA whistleblower David Graham was being punished by Food and Drug Administration officials for his outspoken testimony before a Senate committee.