Steve Ellis is Vice President at Taxpayers for Common Sense, a nonpartisan budget watchdog.
There's more than meets the eye in the tax cut bill before Congress -- it's not just a push to let the Bush tax cuts remain in place.
CNN's John Roberts explains earmarks and the push by politicians to eliminate them.
House Republicans agreed Thursday to continue their ban on requesting earmarks in the upcoming session of Congress.
The GOP caucus in the Senate agreed Tuesday night to ban earmarks, a policy House Republicans already have in place and are expected to keep in the new Congress.
House Republicans agreed Thursday to adopt a ban on congressional earmarks in spending bills for next year, upping the ante with Democrats in the political battle over fiscal responsibility and pork barrel spending.
The U.S. Senate on Sunday approved $447 billion in spending for several Cabinet departments and other agencies for the 2010 budget year -- money needed to fund the federal government after the coming week.
It's impossible to listen to debates about the federal budget without getting an earful about earmarks.
CNN's Jason Carroll looks at government spending and the history of wasting taxpayer dollars.
As a spending bill loaded with pork makes its way through Congress, President Obama is getting pushback from members of his own party who are questioning his vow to end wasteful spending.
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