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Tea Party Hypocrisy on Earmarks?

Dozens of members of the congressional Tea Party Caucus requested more than 764 earmarks for fiscal year 2010.

While for this year Tea Party Caucus members have a "complete ban" on earmarks according to Representative Michele Bachmann (MN-6), exactly how much in earmarks did members request for FY2010?

Via Hotline On Call:

According to a Hotline review of records compiled by Citizens Against Government Waste, the 52 members of the caucus, which pledges to cut spending and reduce the size of government, requested a total of 764 earmarks valued at $1,049,783,150 during Fiscal Year 2010, the last year for which records are available.

Also via Hotline On Call:  A list of Tea Party Caucus members and their earmark requests in Fiscal Year 2010, courtesy of Citizens Against Government Waste's Pig Book:

NAME                EARMARKS        AMOUNT

Aderholt (R-AL) 69 $78,263,000

Akin (R-MO) 9 $14,709,000

Alexander (R-LA) 41 $65,395,000

Bachmann (R-MN) 0 0

Barton (R-TX) 14 $12,269,400

Bartlett (R-MD) 19 $43,060,650

Bilirakis (R-FL) 14 $13,600,000

R. Bishop (R-UT) 47 $93,980,000

Burgess (R-TX) 15 $15,804,400

Broun (R-GA) 0 0

Burton (R-IN) 0 0

Carter (R-TX) 26 $42,232,000

Coble (R-NC) 19 $18,755,000

Coffman (R-CO) 0 0

Crenshaw (R-FL) 37 $54,424,000

Culberson (R-TX) 22 $33,792,000

Fleming (R-LA) 10 $31,489,000

Franks (R-AZ) 8 $14,300,000

Gingrey (R-GA) 19 $16,100,000

Gohmert (R-TX) 15 $7,099,000

S. Graves (R-MO) 11 $8,331,000

R. Hall (R-TX) 16 $12,232,000

Harper (R-MS) 25 $80,402,000

Herger (R-CA) 5 $5,946,000

Hoekstra (R-MI) 9 $6,392,000

Jenkins (R-KS) 12 $24,628,000

S. King (R-IA) 13 $6,650,000

Lamborn (R-CO) 6 $16,020,000

Luetkemeyer (R-MO) 0 0

Lummis (R-WY) 0 0

Marchant (R-TX) 0 0

McClintock (R-CA) 0 0

Gary Miller (R-CA) 15 $19,627,500

Jerry Moran (R-KS) 22 $19,400,000

Myrick (R-NC) 0 0

Neugebauer (R-TX) 0 0

Pence (R-IN) 0 0

Poe (R-TX) 12 $7,913,000

T. Price (R-GA) 0 0

Rehberg (R-MT) 88 $100,514,200

Roe (R-TN) 0 0

Royce (R-CA) 7 $6,545,000

Scalise (R-LA) 20 $17,388,000

P. Sessions (R-TX) 0 0

Shadegg (R-AZ) 0 0

Adrian Smith (R-NE) 1 $350,000

L. Smith (R-TX) 18 $14,078,000

Stearns (R-FL) 17 $15,472,000

Tiahrt (R-KS) 39 $63,400,000

Wamp (R-TN) 14 $34,544,000

Westmoreland (R-GA) 0 0

Wilson (R-SC) 15 $23,334,000

TOTAL 764 $1,049,783,150

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