SENATE Key Vote Alert - Earmark Reform
"YES" on Earmark Reform
(DeMint Amendment #11)
The Club for Growth, with its 40,000 members, plans to score a "YES" vote as a pro-economic growth vote in its annual rating of Congress on the earmark reform amendment (Amdt #11) offered by Senator Jim DeMint on the Legislative Transparency and Accountability Act of 2007 (S. 1).
The amendment would strengthen earmark reform, bringing more transparency and accountability to the process, which would help reduce wasteful spending.
Currently within S. 1, the Senate is proposing weak earmark reform rules that would apply to very few earmarks (it exempts federal projects and it doesn't explicitly apply to earmarks not contained within the bill text). In contrast, the House recently passed earmark reform that is demonstrably better, and would apply to almost all earmarks. If passed, the DeMint Amendment, which is identical to the House proposal, would apply those rules to the Senate.
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