Colorado Springs Republican Rep. Doug Lamborn said that, in leading the charge to strip National Public Radio of taxpayer support, he is aiming simply to “let loose” the station to thrive in the free market. In a round of interviews Thursday held just before and after the House voted along More…
Republicans appear to have boxed themselves into a corner with their portrayal of earmarks as wasteful spending, as many of them have backed a moratorium on earmarks that threatens their power of direct spending. Politico reports that Rep. Michelle Bachmann wants to “redefine earmarks”:
Bachmann, for one, has major
UPDATE: The original version of this article incorrectly listed earmarks from Fiscal Year 2010 as requests in Fiscal Year 2011. TAI drew those numbers from the Taxpayers for Common Sense which listed the earmarks from the wrong year. The earmark totals in the updated version have been drawn from
Yesterday’s vote among Senate Republicans to place a two-year moratorium on the practice of requesting earmarks looks like it’s shaping up to be the beginning, not the end, of a long debate about the issue. My article today describes the mixed feelings of many Republican senators signing onto the More…
In the lead-up to Tuesday’s vote by Senate Republicans to self-impose a two-year moratorium on earmark requests, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) released a statement indicating his avowed, albeit somewhat conflicted, support for the idea.
“I respect the spirit in which this moratorium has been agreed to and hope it More…
It’s official: Senate Republicans voted this afternoon to pass a moratorium on earmark requests among their members for the next two years. In addition, Sens. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) are making a bipartisan push for a floor vote tomorrow on statutory language that would apply to More…
In the wake of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s flip-flop on the earmarks question, the conservative group Let Freedom Ring is pointing to the results of a question it posed to voters about earmarks in a post-election survey conducted by The Polling Company/WomanTrend. The question asked voters to agree or More…
Conventional wisdom says the lame-duck session of Congress will not produce any legislation of consequence. Regardless, speakers and activists at an Americans for Prosperity-organized protest outside the U.S. Capitol railed Monday against the prospect of the outgoing Democratic Congress trying to pass anything.
“It’s about trust but verify,” Dallas Woodhouse, More…
If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. That seems to be the course of action that Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has just taken in his standoff with Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and the Tea Party over earmarks. Delivering remarks on the Senate floor, McConnell just announced More…
With the pressure mounting before the vote on earmarks in tomorrow’s Republican Conference meeting, a growing number of senators are coming out with statements in favor of Sen. Jim DeMint’s (R-S.C.) proposed moratorium on the practice. The group Taxpayers Against Earmarks has launched a feature on its website devoted More…
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