Of Pork and Payback By Congressman JEFF FLAKE

This week, Congress will vote on an omnibus spending bill to fund the government from March through September. The package will cost over $400 billion and includes more than 8,000 earmarks. That's right, over 8,000 earmarks in one bill. What's most insidious is that a number of the earmarks are going to clients of the now infamous PMA Group, a Washington lobbying firm under FBI investigation.





So much for bringing transparency and change to Washington.Yesterday, my piece on pay-to-play earmarking, "Of Pork and Payback", ran in the New York Times. If you haven't read it, I would encourage you to do so. We need to end the pay-to-play game in Washington.

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Also, I wanted to let you know that I was a guest on Sean Hannity's show on Fox News last night. The video above talks about the pork in the bill, and we talked about earmarks in the omnibus bill and pay-to-play in Washington. I hope you'll watch the program and read the piece in the New York Times. Afterwards, please click here to share your comments on FlakeDirect.





Thanks again for all you do for me.





Best Regards,





Jeff Flake