As Spending Deadline Looms, Congress Debates Earmarks
Lawmakers Can't Agree on What Outlays Are Wasteful
Publication: The Washington Post
Lyndsay Layton
January 28, 2007
"Defining earmarks is a little like defining a terrorist," said Ellen Miller of the Sunlight Foundation, a nonpartisan group aimed at making government more transparent. "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. Part of the problem is there is no standard. Some of the earmarks are good stuff that government ought to be doing. This has the potential of throwing the baby out with the bath water."
