Bills Quote by Chris McDaniel

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

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

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

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

The U.S. Senate does not allow legislative provisions to be included in appropriations bills, for much the same reason that most Americans are concerned…

— Ron Wyden

We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.

— Barack Obama

We are spending more money on bond holders than we are on our own citizens. It took 204 years to have this happen. The…

— Jim Cooper

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

Those tax-exempt bonds were put in so that a town or a state or a government could sell more bonds than it ought to.

— Will Rogers

I am not one of those who believe that we are bound to vote supplies to cover a deficiency in the treasury whenever called…

— John C. Calhoun

That's what a Congressman or a Senator is for -- to see that too much money don't accumulate in the national Treasury.

— Will Rogers