Oct 29 2007
100,000 Strong for Earmark Reform
Senator Jim DeMint has launched an Internet petition to take to Congress and pressure the porkers to introduce real earmark reform.
Last November, voters sent all of us a message about the way Congress needs to change. I, for one, received that message loud and clear. I believe it is long past time to finally start doing things differently in Washington.
When I got back to Capitol Hill in December, I teamed up with a few of my colleagues who were equally concerned about the direction Congress was headed. In our opinion it had turned into one gigantic “favor factory.â€
Something had to be done to stop the excessive government spending that had grown out of control. After exhausting a number of options, our last alternative was to block the entire annual budget bill from passing the Senate. As a result, we saved U.S. taxpayers over $17 billion in pork filled pet projects.
The petition can be signed here.
