Roger Wicker among Porker of the Month Honorees

Our own Congressman Roger Wicker has been named to the CAGW's Porker of the Month. I know that he wants to "bring the money home" to our district, but so does every other congressman on the hill. Many of these projects that your tax dollars fund throughout the country are an absolute waste of money.

The more light that we can shed on this spending will help insure that your tax dollars are spent as they should be. Please read the release below that was put out by the CAGW:

Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) this month named all 171 members of Congress who voted against the disclosure of earmarks Porkers of the Month. On September 14, the House of Representatives voted 245-171 for an internal rule change (H.Res. 1000) that requires all earmarks and their sponsors to be identified in spending, tax, and authorization bills. “This is a serious step toward opening up the earmarking process,” CAGW President Tom Schatz said. Partisan politics and self-interest clearly influenced what was an easy vote for transparency and accountability. Of the 171 votes against the resolution, 147 were from Democrats. Twenty-two of the 24 Republican nay votes came from members of the Appropriations Committee, where most earmarks are anonymously slipped into spending bills by individual appropriators without debate. For ignoring taxpayers’ outrage over the waste and corruption of pork-barrel spending, CAGW names the 171 nay voters on H.Res. 1000 Porkers of the Month for September 2006. Read more about the Porker of the Month.