Anti-Pork
Posted at 11:15am on Mar. 31, 2008 Everyone Loses in the Earmark Game
By Senator John Cornyn
Many of my colleagues profess to be bewildered by the extremely low poll ratings being generated by the current U.S. Congress. They hear that the public is not happy with the way Washington operates, but they don’t believe they need to do anything about that -- as if all that unhappiness was somebody else’s problem, and not their own.
I’m not so sure. I believe the public discontent can be accurately sourced, and Congressional earmarking process has become a symbol for wasteful and undisciplined federal spending. Earlier this month, I joined a bipartisan group calling for a one year moratorium on all earmarks. That effort failed. We missed a major opportunity to show we are serious about tightening our Congressional belts during a difficult economic period.
Read on.
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Posted at 2:23am on Dec. 19, 2007 Kudos to Sens. Coburn and Demint and Reps. Shadegg, Hensarling, and Campbell...
By Jeff Emanuel
...for calling on President Bush to keep his commitment to limiting wasteful spending and to veto the omnibus spending bill.
Posted at 4:40pm on Nov. 19, 2007 Sen. Jim DeMint's blogger challenge
By Jeff Emanuel
Jim DeMint has issued a Blogger Challenge -- and he needs your help to stop wasteful earmarks.
Building upon the 100,000 Strong for Earmark Reform campaign, Senator DeMint just launched a petition widget for bloggers. Readers who sign on your site will automatically be credited as coming from blog, and there are plenty of special prizes for the top recruiters.
To embed the widget, please copy and paste this code into your post (below the fold):
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