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PORKBUSTERS UPDATE: Citizens Against Government Waste praises the new earmark moratorium: ?CCAGW?

By Glenn Reynolds

PORKBUSTERS UPDATE: Citizens Against Government Waste praises the new earmark moratorium:

“CCAGW supports this step on the journey toward the complete elimination of congressional earmarks,? said CCAGW President Tom Schatz. ?Over the last three years, under intense pressure from taxpayers, member of Congress have been ratcheting down their earmarks and the earth has not stopped rotating on its axis. With each reduction, members confirm what CCAGW and other taxpayer groups have been saying all along: Historically, Congress has not had to earmark in order to do the taxpayers? business and that Congress can, and should, live without earmarks.”

In fact, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) last week called for a one-year moratorium on all earmarks but has not made any specific proposal to implement her plan.

Fewer earmarks are better earmarks.

Related: House GOP Votes to Ban All Earmarks.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on March 11, 2010 (boomark / email).