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Reject earmarks to demonstrate a firm commitment to integrity inbudgeting.

If President Obama and his subordinates are to be believed, thisAdministration is promising to impose unprecedented("transformational") changes on the way Americans live, work, andtravel in order to achieve a variety of environmental goals. But asthe evidence to date indicates, many of these decisions will bebased on flawed data that have been carelessly collected andcalculated by the Department of Energy.

BG1266ES: How Congressional Earmarks and Pork-Barrel SpendingUndermine State and Local Decisionmaking

The Senate Banking Committee's housing package contains some veryimportant reforms and one very bad idea. Chairman Chris Dodd's(D-CT) version of legislation to use the Federal HousingAdministration (FHA) to refinance at-risk mortgages at a lowerinterest rate in return for a cash fee is still as wrong a way todeal with the housing finance problems as the House-passed version.Dodd has improved his FHA refinancing language by includingamendments by Senators Jim Bunning (R-KY) and Jon Tester (D-MT)that would limit the ability of those who have lied on their loanapplications or otherwise ...

Many in Congress have been arguing the need for more governmentspending to create new jobs to offset those lost and to jumpstartthe economy, but a review of past such efforts reveals that thepromise exceeds performance.