The Washington Post’s Elizabeth Williamson writes that a deal to release the full list of earmarks sooner rather than later is, maybe, imminent, pending, likely or unlikely (I’m paraphrasing) depending on which House member or staffer you ask; InstaPundit quotes Jeff Flake’s press release saying that “the House Appropriations Committee will attach earmarks to the remaining appropriations bills before consideration on the House floor, which will allow Members to attempt to strike out individual earmarks,” but later, InstaPundit adds that there may be backsliding; meanwhile Porkbusters seems to be down, at least when I try to get to it, but I understand from email it’s flashing a victory sign…

National Journal’s CongressDailyAM (we subscribe to it, but it’s not available online without a subscription, so no link) tells a confusing tale of some Republicans saying there’s no deal, others saying there is one, while some Democrats say there is no deal, and others say there is one, and the chair of the House Appropriations Committee, Rep. David Obey, refusing to say anything.

I guess we’ll find out more tomorrow, unless Obey decides that he’s so overwhelmed with conflicting accounts of whether there’s a deal or not that he won’t be able to confirm it until the conference committee meets…