Day: March 12, 2010

The House Republicans’ earmark moratorium is below and the House Rules are available here.

This Post editorial endorses banning all earmarks. The House is right to ban lawmakers from earmarking government funds for for-profit companies. It should go further, and extend the prohibition to nonprofit and educational institutions as well. Some nonprofit institutions spend enormous sums on lobbyists, who dispense campaign donations in hope of obtaining earmarks. More important, […]

The Post reports on the status of the Massa matter here. Another Post story is here.