If the House schedules a vote for the National Capital Transportation Amendments Act of 2005 (H.R. 3496), the Club for Growth, with its 36,000 members, plans to score a "NO" vote on it as a pro-economic growth vote in our annual rating of Congress.

Sponsored by Rep. Tom Davis, H.R. 3496 would provide the nation's capital transit system, better known as the Metro, with an additional taxpayer subsidy of $1.5 billion. If passed, the Davis earmark would be one of the largest ever passed by Congress.

At a time of high deficits and runaway spending, passage of this egregious earmark is the last thing our nation's economy needs. It is high time that this mature transit system has the incentive to be self-sufficient or be funded by local taxpayers who rely on the service, rather than once again relying on taxpayers from across the country to bail it out.

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