Thank you TPMmuckraker, Josh Marshall, Paul Keil, and Laura McGann for exposing this so well. Thanks also to your interns, Will Thomas and Tanvir Vahora who checked all the thousands of earmarks in the highway bill. Right on!

Posted at April 18, 2008 5:35 AM in response to Today's Must Read

Yes socraticgadfly, Don Young's lawyers might invoke Speech and Debate, but he has to face Alaskans at the polls, and we are not likely to view such an invocation kindly.

Posted at April 18, 2008 5:05 AM in response to CREW: That Coconut Road Investigation Is Going Nowhere