Arianna Huffington has a great piece on how Porkbusting is an issue which crosses the left-right divide: This remains for me the most interesting thing about the moves to slice the pork: the way they cut across party lines. Among the competing anti-pork legislation currently jockeying for position in Congress is a Senate bill proposed…
In late January, Senators Coburn and McCain declared their intent to challenge every individual earmark on the floor of the Senate in a letter sent to all their colleagues. Full text of the letter is below… Dear Senator, As you know, the American people are currently engaged in a vigorous debate about our country’s spending…
Senator John McCain’s Pork-Barrel Reduction Act (S. 2265) never made it out of the Senate Rules Committee. Some of its ideas still became rules: the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007 required each earmark to be disclosed along with the member who asked for it. Congress then stopped earmarking in 2011 and brought…
The Pork Barrel Reduction Act, S.2265, never got past committee. Several of its ideas, including public lists of earmarks with each sponsor’s name and a 48-hour posting rule for conference reports, became Senate rules in 2007 through the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act. Congress banned earmarks in 2011 and brought them back in 2021…
We had an interesting debate last Friday about a tip we received that there was an Appropriations meeting scheduled to discuss earmark reform. At the time, Appropriations Chairman Cochran’s spokesperson, Jenny Manley, denied all knowledge of any such meeting either occuring, or having been scheduled in the first place. According to Senate Budget Chairmain Judd…
