Tag: Taxpayers for Common Sense
In the ‘Battle of the Ricks’ Earmarks Return as a Campaign Issue
A Rick Perry sponsored ad airing in Iowa attacks Rick Santorum for his record on appropriations earmarks. This conincides with an apparent Santorum surge in Iowa. Perry highlights Santorum’s vot... Read More
Epic Fail: The Earmark Moratorium Solved Nothing
During the 2010 election season criticism of earmarks reached a fever pitch. Candidates running on the political right declared that earmarks were the source of most of our evils. Arch earmark opponen... Read More
Earmarks for the ages…
Long lost records from the Senate Appropriations Committee, in a story on the blog Booktryst. The records, contained in bound volumes discovered by a Northern California rare book collector, cover the... Read More
Once Again Earmarks Prove to be the Better Choice for our Democracy
NPR Reporter Audie Cornish is reporting on efforts by members of Congress to influence the expenditure of stimulus funds in their states and districts (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?sto... Read More
Earmarks and Archives
Earmarks and archives are two topics near and dear to our hearts, so we obviously took notice when they both came under attack by Taxpayers for Common Sense last week.[1] The interest group expr... Read More
The Paradox of Earmark Reform
Earlier this year House Appropriations Committee Chairman Dbavid Obey (D-WI) announced a ban on earmarks for private for-profit companies in House Appropriations bills. Like earlier earmark refo... Read More
Four Myths About Congressional Earmarks
Never has a quote so accurately summed up the arguments of earmark critics, and rarely is a quote as demonstrably false as this one from a New York Times article published on July 4, 2010.[1] Critics ... Read More
