Senator Hillary Clinton is the queen of pork barrel spending for fiscal year 2009. As The Hill reports, she is asking for $2.3 billion in earmarks for New York at the expense of taxpayers.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) has requested nearly $2.3 billion in federal earmarks for 2009, almost three times the largest amount received […]
As Jason Embry of the Austin American-Statesman reports, Texas Senator Kay Baily Hutchison is refusing to disclose her earmark requests.
Hutchison has gone to greater lengths than any other Austin-area member of the House or Senate to conceal the earmarks she is seeking. The American-Statesman recently asked those lawmakers for the earmarks they are requesting in […]
The New York Times reports on the latest method legislators are using to mask wasteful spending — “soft earmarks.”
With great fanfare, Congress adopted strict ethics rules last year requiring members to disclose when they steered federal money to pet projects. But it turns out lawmakers can still secretly direct billions of dollars to favored organizations […]
CA-41 Democratic candidate Tim Prince stated on the phone that he couldn’t sign FreedomWorks’ earmark pledge because it would be “political suicide.” That’s kind of surprising in light of the fact that so many other signers, who have actually made it to Congress, feel that far from “political suicide” it’s good policy and good politics […]
The editors of Roll Call are calling for a House ethics investigation of Jerry Hurckes, chief of staff to Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-IL). As the pressure from the media and bloggers picks up over the next few days and weeks, look for something to happen. If you’d like to call and ask Rep. Lipinski what […]
Rep. Dave Reichert makes a public statement swearing off earmarks for one year. Next step, we hope he will sign the FreedomWorks No Earmarks Pledge.
Thank you Congressman for taking a stand on this issue!
The chief of staff for Rep. Dan Lipinski brags about bringing home the bacon for purely political purposes. This man is gloating about his corrupt practices. It’s time to put an end to the wasteful, and often corrupt, practice of earmarking.
The Chicago Sun-Times has the story about the braggart chief of staff, Jerry Hurckes.
What has […]
The Boston Herald has this heartwarming story about how earmarks can bring old friends and different political parties together. The apparently very philanthropic Democratic Congressman Bill Delahunt secured a $1.1 million earmark for his old friend, former Republican Congressman Amory Houghton, to protect Houghton’s expensive waterfront home from flooding.
This suddenly makes my own gifts of […]
Colorado Republican candidate for the 6th district Steve Ward refused to sign the FreedomWorks “No Earmarks Pledge” today. I just got off the phone with him and he did not provide a reason for this refusal to sign this common sense pledge. Sadly, too many Republicans pay lip service to supporting “limited government” while not […]
FW Chairman Dick Armey recently took on the issue of earmarks over at Townhall:
There are three groups of people who regularly spend other people’s money: children, thieves, and politicians. All three of these groups need supervision—a watchful, responsible eye who keeps them in line. For children, that means parents. For thieves, that means police […]
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