This just in from Herb Jackson, Bergen Record:
Maybe everyone else knows about it, but just in case, I made a discoverylast night I wanted to share.I was ticked to learn that the PDF versions of the conference reports on theapprops bills had images of the pages, rather than searchable text. Thatmade finding the final amounts for the earmarks for "my" guys tougher. Well,it made it practically impossible because I wasn't going to page thru 185pages of blurry text.But looking at the Transportation-HUD bill last night, I noticed a link onthe bill summary report on Thomas for the text as published in theCongressional Record.To see what I mean, click the link that says "in Congressional Record" fromthis pagehttp://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:h.r.03074:Then ask for "printer friendly display."You can either search that page in your web browser for members names'; orwith a little work you can cut and paste the entire table with the earmarklistings into an Excel spreadsheet.
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