The lobby reform plan was toothless IMO. Even then republicans stalled and added amendment after amendment to extract more teeth.
Earmarks should settle down once pay/go kicks in (or at least one can hope). I think the pork attached to the emergency war funding bill was a case of get it while you still can.
Pork spending shot up under the republicans and Bush didn't veto one spending bill. It's telling that it has only now become an issue for some people. (Bush included)
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