It's time for Congress to stop focusing on parochial pet projects, and instead focus on cutting spending, devolving power and decisions back to states, and working on national priorities like entitlement and tax reform
On November 15, 2010, Senator Mitch McConnell, in his position as GOP Minority Leader took the same position of House Minority Leader John Boehner with a moratorium on earmarks. After the Senate Republicans had voted on this position Senator Jim DeMint stated: “Earmarks have greased the skids for runaway spending and bad policy for decades,” he said. “It's time for Congress to stop focusing on parochial pet projects, and instead focus on cutting spending, devolving power and decisions back to states, and working on national priorities like entitlement and tax reform.”
