Earmarks not voted by Congress January 28, 2008
Posted by Conrad Hubbard in : The Chip , trackbackI was watching the President’s State of the Union Address tonight, sort of, in the background while I worked on a writing project. Maybe he said something else interesting, but the first thing I have ever heard him say that I really liked and that I thought was a really smart move was something along these lines:
“Today I am issuing an executive order forbidding the agencies of the United States government from carrying out any earmark provision not voted upon by Congress.”
That seems like a really clever way to try to force Congressional members to stop slipping unread, unapproved clauses into bills, at the last minute, without the knowledge of the rest of the legislative body. I hope it works, somehow.
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That was the first comment I saw him make that was applauded by the Democrats in the crowd, too.