As Congress debates a moratorium on earmarks, those pork-barrel projects tucked into spending bills sometimes with little scrutiny or debate, Democrat Barack Obama's presidential campaign today released his earmark requests from 2005 and 2006, and reminded reporters he already had released last year's requests.
His point was to press primary rival Hillary Clinton to fully release her earmark requests, and to highlight Clinton's opposing some legislative efforts to make the process more transparent. In the meantime, the Obama earmark requests are interesting reading on their own.
Elilminate earmarks? Ridiculous! Can't be done since that's the way congress and administration have worked since the beginning of this nation.
Silly question - just check public info about where and amount of clinton earmarks.
Too many people confuse earmarks with bribes -- let's stop those!
Without earmarks we would be stuck with the budgets proposed by the Administration - and they are really remote from reality. Congress is a bit closer, especially our Representatives.
Posted by: Joe Sedlak | March 13, 2008 at 05:03 PM
The Clintons will never lift the vail of secrecy, because what's underneath- quid pro quo patronage, dirty deals, influence for hire- is not presentable in polite company. At least they are very experienced in what they do...
Posted by: Majorajam | March 17, 2008 at 12:43 PM