Mitch McConnell bearish on earmark moratorium, GOP goals

Washington Examiner ^ | 11/4/2010 | JP Friere

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In an ordinary year earmarks are 1% - 2% of the budget. Since they add to or come out of discretionary spending which is about 1/3 of the budget they eat up 3 - 6% of available funds. Most Congressmen are modest in their requests but ultra liberal and ultra backward states make gluttons of themselves so the balance is skewed to the least responsible states.

We will be targeting earmarkers as if they were Democrats.

There are legitimate ways to fund worthwhile projects. Earmarking is corruption.