CCAGW Earmark Reform Pledge Gathering Steam

CAGW* | April 6, 2008

Last November, CCAGW unveiled its Earmark Reform Pledge, which features 10 principles designed to bring increased transparency and accountability to the spending process. Among those principles, the pledge asks that legislators fully disclose all earmarked funding or targeted tax benefit requests on their congressional websites; not request any earmarked funding or targeted tax benefit provision that does not serve a federal interest and/or have a federal nexus; not request any earmarked funding or targeted tax benefit provision directed toward a specific private entity that was not requested by an agency; and support legislation that would end the linkage between campaign contributions and earmarks. Recently, the pledge has begun to attract commitments from candidates for Congress, and so far, 15 congressional hopefuls from around the country have signed on. Read more about the Earmark Reform Pledge and find out which candidates have signed it. http://www.cagw.org/site/R?i=U9tXORjlvb5bQj59zUtvFA..

Contributor's website: http://cagw.org

*Content posted by a user may not be completely written by that user. Content from another source is cited in either block quotes, with quotes or with a link to the original material. Content from other sites is posted for commentary and news purposes under fair use. Each user is responsible for their own postings and a particular posting should not be construed as being endorsed by this site or it's owner.