Tell Your Members of Congress to
Make Their Earmark Requests Public!
As reported in newspapers like USA Today, CAGW is right now waging an aggressive campaign to determine which members of Congress are willing to pay more than lip service to transparency and accountability. By letter and by phone, we have called on each member of the House and Senate to disclose the earmark requests they submitted to their respective Appropriations Committees.
To date, only 66 Representatives and two Senators have complied with our request. That’s why we need you to check here and call your elected officials if they are listed and ask them to disclose their earmark requests.
The new leadership of the 110th Congress took control in January promising the “most honest, most open, most ethical Congress in history.” We plan to hold them to their word! While House and Senate rules do not require members of Congress to make their earmark requests available to the public, Americans deserve to know on which pet projects their elected representatives would lavish their hard-earned tax dollars.
Transparency is a vital first step toward eliminating the tens of billions of dollars spent on congressional earmarks annually and ending the “culture of corruption” that earmarking breeds.
Help us promote transparency and accountability by calling your elected officials today and asking them to release their earmark requests. And then tell us whether they responded YES or NO!
CAGW is publishing the responses of members of the House and Senate on our website, as well as the lists of earmark requests provided by members.
http://www.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=getinv_Advocacy_EarmarkDisclosureCallAlert_IssuePage
So why waste your time over which side is spending more? Why not take the time to find out for yourselves and do something about it? I’ve placed my requests because I WANT to know. Will you?
2007-10-09 04:10:58 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Great Link !! (((( MUAH !!! )))
2007-10-09 08:10:06 · answer #1 · answered by Antiliber 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
What a great bill that would be. Of course, there already is in the budget and congressitional budget office allocations that show how much of every dollar is spent. A contractor working in the D.C. area on this type of project would probably get paid (not bill rate, but pay rate) of $40 - $85/hour. The bill rate would be 2,3 times that.
2016-05-19 22:47:04 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Simply fantastic - you have just improved my opinion of my fellow constituents, and perhaps pushed me a little closer to this strange concept called "hope."
2007-10-09 04:15:30 · answer #3 · answered by Finnegan 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well that's a real step in the right direction
2007-10-09 05:59:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes. I think people waste time over who spends more because they tend to ignore problems in their own party.
2007-10-09 04:18:24 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I see you took that link and ran with it too. Great info!
2007-10-09 04:42:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
yes, looks good.
thanks for the info.
2007-10-09 05:22:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
what else is new the us dollar aint gunna be worth anything before you know it!
2007-10-09 04:14:21 · answer #8 · answered by ♥Angie♥ 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I feel so much better now
2007-10-09 04:13:26 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋