Reply #2: We won't feel the pinch that much. [View All]

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Most of the federal money spent here is on salaries of federal employees and the military, social security and medicaid/medicare which I don't think qualify as earmarks.

Here is a breakdown of how the federal money was spent in Alaska in 2002. http://iser.uaa.alaska.edu/Publications/FedSpendSum.pdf I imagine the percentages are pretty much the same now. I imagine there will be some big fights over the 8(a) contracts for the Native corporations. Lisa took a lot of campaign money from those groups and they will be expecting those federal contracts to continue their way. Claire McCaskill is proposing some curtailing. http://alaskadispatch.com/dispatches/alaska-beat/88-alaska-beat/7551-sen-mccaskill-set-to-file-8a-reform-bill I expect this to be a real catfight.