OMB Earmarks Database Updated with FY 2005 Appropriations
Today, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) updated its earmark database with details on 13,496 earmarks totaling more than $19 billion for Fiscal Year 2005 appropriations. This database is available to the public on OMB’s web site http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/earmarks/index.html TARGET=_blank.
As OMB Watch notes:
This is a remarkable achievement in terms of advancing government spending transparency and, worth noting, of OMB's own initiative -- no statute or Presidential order compelled them to produce this database.