Someone is going to decide whether to allocate money for projects, contracts, or programs.

In a recent column, The Washington Post’s Fact Checker declared Rep. Ron Paul votes against “virtually every piece of legislation that could be interpreted as government overreach or interference with the free market.” There one small problem with the analysis: It ignores the fact that Paul is one of the biggest pork-barrel earmarkers on Capitol Hill. 

Republicans are jumping on the anti-earmark bandwagon after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell announced his support for a GOP earmark ban.

House Republicans seem to be wavering on an earmark ban, but voters have a right to know before Election Day whether House Republican leaders will ban earmarks if they win the majority.

This was a debate full of surprises, at least for me. The first: CNN’s John King showed some forebearance in not leading off with a question to Rick Santorum on his statements on contraception and other cultural issues.

Soon-to-be Utah senator Mike Lee is already shaking things up on Capitol Hill by requesting public, recorded voting for earmark legislation.

Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles are challenged with unrealities in handling the country's toughest economic truths.

The number of appropriators in the GOP leadership is disproportionate to the rest of the Republican caucus and jeopardizes the Party's hopes of retaking Congress by convincing voters that it can restore fiscal discipline.