McConnell endorses earmark ban (AP)

[reagle]

Senate GOP Leader McConnell endorses earmark ban

© 2010 The Associated Press
Nov. 15, 2010, 1:23PM

WASHINGTON — The top Republican in the Senate has reversed course and endorsed a moratorium on pork-barrel projects known as "earmarks." Those are special funding requests lawmakers slip into legislation for home-state projects.

Kentucky Republican Mitch McConnell says he's heeding the

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/top/all/7295669.html

[Dripping Rain]

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[low preference guy]

McConnell co-opted?

[FSP-Rebel]

Romney came out in support of it too. I guess Rand is the default Senate leader after all.

[UtahApocalypse]

14 Billion is not a drop in the bucket..... pandering

[Aratus]

jim demint has less to take him to task for!

[MRoCkEd]

This just means Obama gets to earmark it instead. TARP and the stimulus are examples of bills without earmarks. The real issue is not introducing or voting on these spending bills. I notice Coburn said he would attach the ban to a food safety bill. So the earmark test will be whether you vote for that disaster...

[Toureg89]

14 Billion is not a drop in the bucket..... pandering
i remember the obama state of the union address, in which he said he was going to try to cut the deficit/debt, but wasnt going to touch medicare, medicaid, SS, or military spending.

well, refusing to touch 70-80% of the budget gets us nowhere fast

[HOLLYWOOD]

This hurts the Socialist States the most... California, Illinios, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massechusetts, Vermont, Oregon.

Time to cut off their vote buying theft.