Sen. Coburn still fighting the good fight
… on the fiscal front, along with Senators Brownback (R-KS), DeMint (R-SC), Ensign (R-NV), Graham (R-SC), McCain (R-AZ), and Sununu (R-NH). To help offset Hurricane Katrina relief effort costs, they unveiled today a proposal to that would cut up to $115 billion of pork in the federal budget over the next two years. Click here to read more about their ideas (Adobe req.).
Blogging from the Capitol
Earlier this week, the House Republican Conference invited bloggers to the Capitol for a chance to meet with House Republicans to discuss economic issues. Matt Margolis at Blogs For Bush was among the bloggers invited to attend and he has a great recap in several posts (scroll down and start at the bottom to read in order of when they were posted) today – including audio links – of what was discussed.
Sen. Tom Coburn gets anti-pork amendment passed
…. in the Senate. From Mark Tapscott’s blog:
So far, no commitments from Congress on pork cutting
On Sunday, I blogged about the “Porkbusters” campaign started by Glenn Reynolds and The Truth Laid Bear blog, which is an effort to get bloggers and blog readers from across the blogosphere to log the pork they have found in their respective state’s budget, post about it on their blog, email their Congressional representatives and urge them to consider cutting said pork.
Cutting some pork out of the NC budget
Earlier, I blogged about the blogosphere’s efforts to give the US Congress some ideas for how to go about trimming some pork out of the federal budget in light of the announcement that the President doesn’t intend on raising taxes to help pay for the Katrina relief and reconstruction effort. He basically said Congress was going to have to get tough and trim some major pork from the budget. Glenn Reynolds ran with the ball and suggested Porkbusters, which is the blogosphere’s contribution to trimming pork So far, here are some of the logged responses from the blogosphere.