Money Quote by Barack Obama

I'd be a lot more excited about eliminating earmarks if we reduced all of the spending by whatever the earmarks used to be, but…

— Roy Blunt

Earmarks have become a symbol of a Congress that has broken faith with the people. This earmark ban shows the American people we are…

— John Boehner

I think we ought to ban earmarks. I think we ought to give citizens the opportunity to designate up to 10 percent of their…

— Carly Fiorina

If the earmark is reinstated, get ready for an avalanche of government waste coming in the form of a Democrat wish list.

— Lauren Boebert

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid tried to pass a proposed omnibus budget bill with 6,714 earmarks worth $8.3 billion, but pulled it after Americans…

— Michael McCaul

We know that appropriators will fight these cutbacks. But by eliminating earmarks, we can stop the horse trading that grows agency budgets.

— Eric Cantor

Many of the earmark request forms are actually filled out by lobbyists and then just turned in by the member's staff to the appropriations…

— Jeff Flake

“It's a shame, when I'm at the checkout line, and the cashier holds up my bill to the light, in search for a ghost…

— Anthony Liccione

Finally, in the Mississippi state Senate, earmarks are often hidden in bond bills, which I have voted against many times, because our bonded indebtedness…

— Chris McDaniel

When I came to Congress, I campaigned for fiscal responsibility. And the earmarking problem and crisis caused a great erosion in the public's confidence…

— Chuck Fleischmann

As I have traveled throughout my Congressional district, the one thing I heard loud and clear was simply please stop spending money you do…

— Tim Scott

We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting…

— Carly Fiorina