Taking action is the first step towards a productive legislative system. I urge you to do your part by signing this petition: earmarkdata.org. The petition calls for a database system to be created in which all earmarks can be researched, obtained, and understood by the very people who are supposedly being represented in the voting on said earmarks and bills. Currently, no such system exists so that a common citizen may formulate an opinion on the earmarks that their elected representatives vote upon. A good example is that Senator Durbin of Illinois puts his earmark disclosures out as scanned PDFs. (see here) Most notably, he doesn’t even include the addresses of his earmark recipients, as The WashingtonWatch Blog pointed out.
Let us reintroduce transparency to the Legislative system that has been muddied by political interests.
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