Pelosi Ignores GOP’s Request for Earmark Moratorium
Rob Bluey /
House Minority Leader John Boehner and his colleagues in the Republican leadership gave Speaker Nancy Pelosi a deadline of Feb. 1 to respond to their request for an immediate moratorium on earmarks. The date came and went without a word from Pelosi or her Democrat colleagues. But don’t expect to hear the end of it just yet.
Boehner released a statement today attacking Pelosi for failing to take a stand against wasteful pork-barrel spending, which he said has become a “symbol of a broken Washington.” He said Pelosi could shut down the earmarking process overnight in her role as speaker. By failing to respond to the GOP’s request, however, Boehner said Republicans would resort to other tactics to halt earmarking.
House Republicans will use every means available to force votes on this issue until the earmark process is brought to an immediate halt. American families are fed up with seeing their hard-earned tax dollars squandered by Washington politicians, particularly at a time when the middle-class is being squeezed by the rising cost of living.
Washington is broken. Fundamental change will only begin when the earmarks stop and both parties come together to identify ways to permanently change the way in which Washington spends taxpayers’ money. House Republicans will challenge Congress to make this change.