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Democrats At The Trough: Spotlight on Earmark Abuse Democrat promises for earmark transparency have given way to secrecy and back room deals. This House Republican Conference video, "Spotlight on Abuse" shows why congress needs to let the sunshine in and support real earmark reform. Visit GOP.gov for more information. Tags: earmarks democrats abuse speaker nancy pelosi charles rangel steny hoyer john murtha house republican conference

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Sen. Jim DeMint Proposes Earmark Reform U.S. Senate, C-SPAN Tags: jim demint earmark reform harry reid nancy pelosi ethics lobbying

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Rep. Don Young (R-AK) Defends His Coconut Road Earmark Rep. Don Young (R-AK), April 30 2008 Tags: Rep. Don Young (R-AK) defends Coconut Road earmark florida project corruption congress pork bill

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Roskam Exposes Earmark Slush Fund Congressman Peter J. Roskam's (R-IL) floor speech against the earmark slush fund. Roskam believes in the principle that earmarks should be exposed to the full sunshine of public scrutiny, and that includes a debate and vote on the floor of the People's House. Video text: Mr. Chairman, thank you. I want to take you back because I know you have an independent recollection of what it was like to come here in your first term. Many of us in this chamber came here just in January, took the oath of office and now what we find is that every week is a new week, all new process we are learning. Those of us who are not appropriators, we come into our conference and we hear this is the appropriations week. We sit down with our staff and staff gets us up to speed and we hear about the earmarks, heard about them a lot in the campaign, Mr. Chairman, and start to get the staff briefing on what are the tools that we have in earmarks. If you talked to people in the Illinois' Sixth Congressional District tonight and ask them about earmarks, you would get their attention. They would focus in. It was a symbol of an abuse of the process. So when you sit down as a freshman and your staff says, "Congressman, this is what you can do - you can offer amendments, argue with these things, and challenge them on the floor." As iron sharpens iron so one makes another better, and so that process, that winnowing process, is what this is all about. And that's what every member has the right to do. Except now. Because now what ends up happening is our staff tells us, "no, there's this new process, Congressman, what you get to do is you get to write a letter, you get to write a letter to the chairman of the committee" And the chairman of the committee is going to open up the letter and make a decision of the merits of you, an independent elected member of congress, that is who you get to talk to. You don't get to argue on the house floor. You don't get to light up 435 people. You don't get to talk to millions of people. You get to write one letter. That's where you get to go. If you think about that, that's absurd. There are all kinds of great things in this bill, no doubt about it. My prior colleague from the State of Illinois articulated many good things in this bill and it's my hope that we can come together and drive towards those things, but to act as if the earmark process is insignificant is really patronizing. It is patting people on the head...and saying off with you, be lively. You get to write your letter to the chairman and the chairman will make a declaration on whether it's a good idea or a bad idea. Well, one of our colleagues on the internet recently said this, he said to his constituents, he said, "I will remain no one's congressman but yours." Doesn't that sound great? That's great stuff. That's rich. That is rich in the Chamber of Commerce meetings. That's rich in front of the Rotary groups. That's rich in front of the coffee groups and you go door to door and say I'm going to be your congressman. But you know what? You end up seeding that responsibility, you end up seeding that opportunity to one person, and that's only if you're lucky enough that he reads your mail. I say no to that, Mr. Chairman. I yield back and I move the committee do now rise. Tags: Congressman Peter Roskam Congress Earmark Slush Fund

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House Democrat Earmark Sham House Democrats are passing hidden earmarks in the middle of the night. They don't disclose them to the American People; they don't disclose them to other Members of Congress. In this clip, Rep. Westmoreland forces the Dems (through use of procedure) to admit what they are doing on the record. Tags: House Democrats HouseRepublicans Lynn Westmoreland

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Steelman's "earmark" commercial Sarah Steelman's latest "earmark" attack on Republican rival Kenny Hulshof Tags: Hulshof Steelman Missouri governor

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Congressman Jeff Flake Challenges Speaker Pelosi's Earmark Congressman Jeff Flake challenges an earmark sponsored by Speaker Pelosi for $2,500,000 to restore the historic parade ground at the Presidio in San Francisco, California . Tags: Jeff Flake Earmark Congress

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Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) is a Badass Rep. Hensarling on the floor of the US House, in support of the earmark-ending bill that was later passed. 9/14/06 Tags: hensarling politics republicans conservative awesome

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DeMint Senate Speech -- Earmark Transparency Senator DeMint asks the Senate to apply already approved earmark rules that would ensure 100 percent transparency. He is denied by Democrats. Tags: DeMint Earmark Pork Democrats Republicans Senate Fiscal Conservative

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Fox News Profile of Sen. Jim DeMint "Special Report," Fox News Channel, January 17, 2007 Tags: jim demint earmark reform harry reid nancy pelosi ethics lobbying brit hume major garrett

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