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Blocks from a comercial buildinged by her husband. oklahoma senator james inhofe helped secure $2 million of widen of a road that runs next to his wifes property near tulsa. thois are a few of long list of funding projects that raise some eyebrows. we have the national reporter with "the washington post" and part of the team that investigated all of this. so, kimberly, big question i guess after two days of listening to the reports, how bad is it when it comes to earmarks? >> well, thats a good ...

We will eventually get there. its a transparency bill that the president called for. its on all earmark requests. the american people, were at 11% approval rating as far as congress is concerned. the only way thats built up is for us to shine sunshine all over this place, and -- and the question i wrestle with and i want to ask every member of congress, what are you here for if its not to do the best long-term thing for the country. she if you lose your seat. so what if you dont win. the country...

Bill, the request put in the day after the vote, as was required, a total, three oint $4 billion for all lawmakers, and the sunlight foundation wants to track these requests to see if lawmakers were rewarded for the yes vote. >> we know in congress one of the ways leadership tries to influence members is through earmarks, and so this seemed to be us -- seem to us to be a good thing to follow. >> reporter: after the vote, thats when the prop operations committee requested it, that was the deadlin...

Government watchdog group took a look at the earmark requests put in by democratic congressman bart stupak and ten other prolife democrats who ended up voting for the bill and those requests were submitted the next day, as was required. the requests totaled $4.7 billion for all 11 lawmakers and the sunlight foundation wants to track these requests to see if lawmakers were rewarded for their yes votes. >> we do know that there was pressure put on members, we do know that around the health care bi...

Democratic congressman bart stupak and 10 other pro-life democrats who ended up voting for the bill totaled $3.4 billion and alisyn says the sunlight foundation will watch the process through june or july to see how many of these earmarks are actually approved. >> shepard: anything from stupaks office on. this a statement from a stupak spokesperson says quote the congressmans vote for health care has no connection to annual appropriations requests. appropriations requests were submitted on monda...

Congressmens vote and the earmarks. a statement from a spokesperson for congressman stupak says, quote, the congressmans vote for health care has no connection to annual appropriations requests. appropriations requests were submitted on monday, march 22nd, because thats the deadline of the appropriations committee. thats according to a spokeswoman for bart stupak, whose office also says the earmarks are in line with what the congressman had put if for previous years. jane the sunlight foundation...

Schedule for holidays. >> right. >> chris, make your way back to washington. we need you here, too. coming up, a game of of one upmanship over ear marks. >> house republicans today have determined to renounce earmark requests of all kinds in this congress. >> democrats and republicans fighting over which party can change business as usual over those fat pork projects for their districts. republican congressman mike pence joins us next. be sure to follow the show online at andrea .msnbc.com and...

Were the first white house ever to post our visitors online. weve excluded lobbyists from policymaking jobs or seats on federal boards and commissions. ive called on congress to make all earmark requests public on one central website before they come up for a vote so that you know how the money is spent. were going to have to confront the gaping loophole that the supreme court recently opened in our campaign finance laws that allow special interests to spend without limit to influence american e...