Texas AFP
Published: 03-13-08
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) deserves a big Texas-sized thank you for stepping up to cosponsor a year-long moratorium on pork barrel earmark spending in the Senate.
AFP President Tim Phillips said “Every senator who has called for an end to wasteful spending and added transparency to how Washington spends tax dollars should support this temporary ban on earmarks. This halt to earmarks would help lawmakers on Capitol Hill refocus our national spending priorities and allow meaningful earmark reform to take root.”
“We have worked hard in Texas to push transparency and accountability and we want to see more of that in Washington D.C. also” said Peggy Venable Texas AFP Director. “Texans work too hard to take care of their families and pay their taxes to find that some of those tax dollars going to a tea pot museum in North Carolina or to a bridge to nowhere in Alaska.”
“We encourage Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison to sign onto this bipartisan earmark moratorium” added Venable.
Senators Mel Martinez (R-Florida) and Mike Enzi (R-Wyoming) have agreed to support the earmark moratorium amendment.
In addition current cosponsors include Senators Jim DeMint (R-SC) John McCain (R-AZ) Claire McCaskill (D-MO) Tom Coburn (R-OK) Jon Kyl (R-AZ) Bob Corker (R-TN) Richard Burr (R-NC) Lindsey Graham (R-SC) Barack Obama (D-IL) Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and Evan Bayh (D-IN).
