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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 bill, there have been a lot of different deals made. we know that in congress, that one of the ways th...

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 stupak's office on. this a statement from a stupak spokesperson says quote the congressman's vote for health care has no connection to annual appropriations requests. appropriations requests were submitted on monday, march 22nd which by the way was the day after the health care vote because that is the deadline...

Congressmen's vote and the earmarks. a statement from a spokesperson for congressman stupak says, quote, the congressman's vote for health care has no connection to annual appropriations requests. appropriations requests were submitted on monday, march 22nd, because that's the deadline of the appropriations committee. that's 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 says it's also going to be looking at republican earmarks? >> yes, house republicans says they'...

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 on twitter. that keep you cool and dry have now inspired stayfree® to create a whole new level of ...

We're the first white house ever to post our visitors online. we've excluded lobbyists from policymaking jobs or seats on federal boards and commissions. i've 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. we're 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 elections. we also said that, as we worked to change the ways of washington, we'd also change the...