Townhall

Farm Bill Yet Another Example of Democrats' Broken Promises on Earmark Reform

I’ve been an earmark reform advocate since my earliest days in Congress. When I first ran for the House, I told voters in my district that if they were looking for somebody to go to Washington and ...
Seattle Times

Fact Check: Wash. Dems miss mark on earmarks

OLYMPIA — Sen. Patty Murray’s campaign and state Democrats say Republican challenger Dino Rossi is a hypocrite for opposing federal earmark spending, pointing to a list of construction projects ...
The Hill

Dem earmark ban would still allow a lot of spending to continue

prevented the Bridge to Nowhere, the Airport for No One, or some of the other recent infamous examples of spending. Democrats credit for taking on for-profit earmarks as a first-step to start ridding ...
The Heritage Foundation

The Congressional Earmark Moratorium: Will It Last the Year?

Ronald Utt is the Herbert and Joyce Morgan Senior Research Fellow. Congressional promises to clean up the earmark mess and its associated corruption got off to a strong start in 2007 when the House of ...
Fox Business

Republicans pen letter against return of earmarks: 'Cannot imagine a worse way to build back trust in Congress'

Republicans publicly released a letter written to the chairs of the appropriations committees Wednesday that “strongly opposed” the return of earmarks, weeks after Democrats announced plans to bring ...
The Economist

Earmark silliness

YESTERDAY John McCain, or one of his aides, informed the world via Twitter of his intention to make a speech calling for cutting the federal deficit by eliminating earmarks. SenJohnMcCain 6:25am via ...