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 of the appropriations committee. now, house republicans have said they are not requesting any earmarks for the next fiscal year but bill allison says the sunlight foundation will be looking at g.o.p. senators to see if they appear to be putting in any earmark requests for their house colleagues. shep? >> shepard: molly henneberg in washington. -- well, first, the ugly side of the health care battle. a philadelphia man charged with threatening to kill the virginia