Americans for Prosperity Applauds Earmark Executive Order as “One More Step” in Right Direction, Challenges Presidential Candidates to Pledge to Extend Bush’s Reform WASHINGTON – Tim Phillips, President of the national free-market grassroots group Americans for Prosperity, today released the following statement in response to President Bush’s signing of an executive order that instructs his agencies to ignore non-binding pork-barrel earmarks: 

The Atlanta Journal Constitution is reporting that U.S. Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) will voluntarily stop requesting new earmarks.  In a major victory for fiscal restraint, Rep. Price will join the growing bipartisan ranks of legislators who have seen the damage that earmarks have done to their reputations and the federal budget.