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Rumsfeld: 'Reduce Lure' of Extremism GOP Lawmakers Raise 'Pork' in Idaho Citizens Against Government Waste named Sen.

Larry Craig, R-Idaho, and Rep.

Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, Co-Porkers of the Month for their editorial "Earnest Earmarks," which portrays earmarking as a proper exercise of Congress's constitutional spending power and a check on the growth of government.

Craig and Simpson argue that earmarks do not increase spending because Appropriations Committees must stay within the overall limits set by the budget resolution.

But the budget resolution is nonbinding and Congress routinely exceeds its spending caps.

Furthermore, lawmakers often vote for expensive bills in exchange for pork projects in their home districts.

As Sen.

Tom Coburn, R-Okla., says, earmarks "are a gateway drug on the road to the spending addiction." The editorial c...

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