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Extracted Claims (18452)
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Simplified: $2400000 for renovations to Haddad Riverfront Park in Charleston1 sources5 months ago
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Simplified: $1950000 for a library and archives at the Charles B Rangel Center for Public Service at the City College of New York1 sources5 months ago
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Simplified: $492000 for the Rocky Flats Cold War Museum in Arvada Colorado1 sources5 months ago
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Simplified: $1648850 for the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago a private nonprofit business that has major corporate funding1 sources5 months ago
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Simplified: Most projects are properly the responsibility of state and local governments or the private sector not the federal government1 sources5 months ago
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Simplified: Earmarking is on the rise again1 sources5 months ago
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Simplified: Problem was starkly illustrated by the Ron Brown scandals of the 1990s1 sources5 months ago
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Simplified: Businesses and venture capital firms make many investments that turn sour but their losses are private and not foisted involuntarily on other people1 sources5 months ago
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Simplified: When government starts choosing industries and technologies to subsidize it will likely bet on the wrong horses at taxpayer expense1 sources5 months ago
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Simplified: Corporate welfare draws talented people into wasteful subsidy activities and away from more productive market-based pursuits1 sources5 months ago
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Simplified: More than 1800 federal subsidy programs present a wealth of earmarking opportunities for legislators1 sources5 months ago
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Nobody knows where the economy is headed in the future, especially not politicians in Washington. 0.500Simplified: Nobody knows where the economy is headed in the future especially not politicians in Washington1 sources5 months ago
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Simplified: Many of those projects turned out to be duds and the company might not have pursued them if it had not received federal aid1 sources5 months ago
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Simplified: After 2005 various earmark scandals erupted and Congress switched to Democratic control which slowed the pace of earmarking for a while1 sources5 months ago
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Simplified: Brown was head of the Democratic National Committee when President Clinton named him Secretary of Commerce in 19931 sources5 months ago
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Simplified: Burdensome tax and regulatory policies helped push shipping-related industries offshore1 sources5 months ago
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Simplified: Ethanol production has soared which has harmed consumers because food prices have risen as farmland has been converted to ethanol production1 sources5 months ago
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Simplified: Federal government requires ethanol to be used in fuels provides a tax credit for ethanol producers and imposes a tariff on ethanol imports1 sources5 months ago
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Simplified: Federal import quotas on sugar push up U.S. sugar prices and hurt U.S. candy manufacturers1 sources5 months ago
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Simplified: Many federal programs duplicate activities routinely provided in private markets such as insurance loans and marketing1 sources5 months ago