Tom DeLay.com - Home - A Clog in the Democrat's 'Swamp Drain'

"the spirit of this earmark rule is about openness. It is about allowing the public the ability to scrutinize the use of their tax dollars during the lawmaking process. A constituent has every right to know where their money is going and which members are spending it. Yet, the Democrats have decided that the public is better served by Democrat staffers removing all their parties’ earmark request letters and hiding them away in some closet until the 11th hour. So much for transparency – but then again, Democrat rules were made to be broken."