Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Pork Not Binding

If true, this would somewhat negate the need for a line-item veto.
“The vast majority of earmarks are secretly slipped into bills without much debate. These non-legislated earmarks are not legally binding, and the Administration has the authority to stop them. President Bush should instruct his cabinet to ignore wasteful non-legislative earmarks and reserve the funds for their core missions. This would make it much harder for Congress to add wasteful earmarks and spend more than is truly needed.”

Although a line-item veto would still be nice.

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