TCS Preliminary Earmark Analysis for FY 2011

[JBeukema]

The FY2011 budget is a mess. Congress has not finished a single spending bill. The House has approved two, the Senate none. A quick peek at Thomas reveals that is unprecedented. Normally, we don’t tabulate earmarks until the bill has passed the floor. But we would be waiting until the final omnibus or whatever comes out of the sausage grinder at the end of the day. So we databased the bills at whatever stage they were in – Subcommittee, full committee, floor. That was 10 bills in the House (no earmarks in either Legislative branch or State, Foreign Operations) and 9 bills in the Senate (no earmarks in either Legislative Branch or State, Foreign Operations plus the Interior bill has not been considered). Databases available here.

Looking at strictly lawmaker disclosed earmarks: So far, the FY11 House spending bills contained nearly 3,000 earmarks worth $3 billion, while the Senate bills contained more than 3,700 earmarks worth $6.0 billion.

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