Tag Archive 'Budget'

DeMint Team Update By Senator Jim DeMint

While those of us fighting for fiscal responsibility may have suffered a defeat, I refuse to give up. Change will only occur if we continue to fight the status quo in Washington.

Pressure Mounts on Bush to Issue Executive Order

….sources on Capitol Hill who noted that appropriators are leaning heavily on President Bush to back down from an executive order.

Cut the Pork With an Earmark Executive Order

As for Republicans in Congress, a Bush executive order against earmarks is probably their last slim chance to prove their claim to have gotten the message of 2006.

Stick It In Their Earmarks

If the president decided to get tough and issue an executive order instructing all agencies not to be guided by earmarks not actually included in the appropriations legislation, he would have on his side the Presentment Clause in Article 1 of the Constitution, which describes how a bill becomes law.

Omnibus Earmarks Out: President Bush Should Cancel Congress’s Pork Spending by Brian M. Riedl

In the November 2006 elections, the American people sent a loud and clear message that they are tired of runaway spending, pork, and corruption.[4] Despite promising reform, the Democratic congressional majority produced an omnibus spending bill that includes the second highest number of pork projects of any bill in American history.

Odds and Ends

It is the enemy within that scares me more than anything else.

Spending Hikes: A Guide to the Gimmicks by Ernest Istook

President Bush should keep his veto pen handy. Congress should drop the gimmicks, reduce the pork, and go home for the holidays.

Remember that letter you signed? by Kristina Rasmussen

Republicans who went back on their word and vote for the bloated spending bill include:

Senators still boast about bringing home the bacon

While conservative senators have boasted recently about ditching the $1 million “hippie museum” earmark from a recent spending bill, they didn’t bother touching billions for Louisiana.

An Important Message from Senator Jim DeMint

My Fellow Taxpayer,

need you to join 100,0…