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GAO says at least 3,700 stimulus recipients are delinquent on taxes

By Laurel Adams

Stimulus recipients who got $24 billion owe $750 million in taxes

Recovery board foiled by its own effort to track stimulus spending

By John Solomon

Add another chapter in the government's struggles to account for how the $787 billion stimulus money is being spent....

Some anti-spending candidates’ businesses have government contracts, tax breaks in their past

By Kimberly Leonard and Aaron Mehta

In his quest for West Virginia’s Senate seat, Republican John Raese frequently attacks “professional politicians’ out-of-control spending sp

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"… in Wisconsin, Missouri, KentuckyAppleton, Wis., Republican House candidate Reid Ribble bashed the stimulus even though a construction firm owned by members of hi …"

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Joe Barton — Energy and Commerce Committee?

By Aaron Mehta

A longtime conservative from Texas, Rep. Joe Barton rocketed onto the national spotlight by famously apologizing to BP during a June hearing

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"… and subsidies for energy companies. Barton lost the chairmanship when the Democrats took the House in the 2006 elections, but has been the ranking member ever …"

"… ton pledged that “If they somehow manage to get the votes and get enough Democrats to walk the plank and commit suicide, in the next Congress, I’ll be chai …"

"… an manner. A group of Texan and Louisianan representatives, including four Democrats, helped bring an $88 million earmark for a “National Domestic Preparedne …"

Stimulating hypocrisy: Scores of Recovery Act opponents sought money out of public view

By John Solomon and Aaron Mehta

Scores of Recovery Act opponents sought money out of public view

Money to high speed rail could create conflicts with other transpo projects

By Matthew Lewis

The emergent high speed rail lobby, which we highlighted in a story today as part of our Transportation Lobby project, may be approaching it
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New, performance-based method of divvying up funds at risk

By Matthew Lewis

Public transportation advocates are up in arms this week over the latest twist in an ongoing war between mass transit and highway funding in

State of the Union address highlights issues examined by Center for Public Integrity

By Josh Israel

A series of recent Center for Public Integrity stories provide an illuminating reality check on some of the points made by President Barack

States slow to spend stimulus energy efficiency money, investigators find

By John Solomon

U.S. states have failed to spend the vast majority of 2009 stimulus money they received to encourage renewable energy and efficiency, the En

Cash stimulates auto sales, real estate not so much

By Joe Eaton

Americans, it seems, may prefer new wheels to new homes. Compared to the wildly popular auto trade-in program “cash for clunkers,” the $8,0

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