Earmarking Quotes

In Congress, it's all pork, all the time.

I am guilty of asking the Senate for pork and proud of the Senate for giving it to me.

The earmark favor factory needs to be boarded up and demolished, not turned over to new management that may or may not have a better eye for earmarks with 'merit.'

The Pig Book

When I first came to Washington ... my charge was to cut the cost of government, to get government off our backs .... Thirty years later, the local newspaper says, "We want you to be a pork provider and we don't mean the farm kind.

We see people voting for bills that their ideals and principles are opposed to, but because their little funding project is in there, they're voting for it. We might say it's one percent of all spending but the impact of that spending is far greater.

Frankly, earmarking is not the problem. It is a symptom of the problem.

When I was first elected to the House in 2006, it was important to me to send a clear message to the people of NY-20: I wanted to be a representative for the people and shed some light on their government, so I became the first member of Congress to post my schedule, my financial disclosures and my earmark requests all online.

Those members of Congress who want to bring back pork to their districts should stand up proudly and be counted.