{"id":4515,"date":"2010-03-30T13:09:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T18:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=4515"},"modified":"2010-03-30T13:09:56","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T18:09:56","slug":"stupaks-democrats-request-billions-in-earmarks-coincidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/4515\/stupaks-democrats-request-billions-in-earmarks-coincidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Stupak&#8217;s Democrats Request Billions in Earmarks &#8211; Coincidence?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FoxNews.com <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2010\/03\/29\/pro-life-democrats-switched-vote-health-request-billions-earmarks\/\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The 11 House Democrats led by Rep. Bart Stupak who dropped their opposition to health care reform legislation mere hours before the final vote have requested $3.4 billion in earmarks &#8212; and one watchdog group wants to know whether the money represents business as usual or political payoffs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Sunlight Foundation says it plans to track the earmark requests, which were put in one day after health care reform cleared Congress, to see whether they&#8217;re approved and whether it appears lawmakers are being rewarded for their vote.\u00a0&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, Stupak&#8217;s office claims there is no link between the\u00a0earmarks and health care votes.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0But if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FoxNews.com reports: The 11 House Democrats led by Rep. Bart Stupak who dropped their opposition to health care reform legislation mere hours before the final vote have requested $3.4 billion in earmarks &#8212; and one watchdog group wants to know whether the money represents business as usual or political payoffs.\u00a0 &#8220;The Sunlight Foundation says it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[943,1022,12],"class_list":["post-4515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-bart-stupak","tag-earmarks","tag-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4515"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4520,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4515\/revisions\/4520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}