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Today we say goodbye to America's closest thing to a beloved monarch. 

Earmarks are the name and reform is the game.  Now that members are finally returning for session this week, we thought we might check the status of Congressman Flake and Senator John McCain’s bipartisan legislation (H.R. 1642/ S.1495), which requires that earmarks be included in the actual text of spending bills, rather than the committee or conference reports that accompany bills. H.R.1642

By way of Vodkapundit: BB&T announces eminent domain policy

These suggestions from the Heritage Foundation sound very similar to our plans for spending reform, which is great.  Really, we don’t mind playing nice in the sandbox, particularly when the issue is spending reform, a matter of the utmost importance.  So, we say the more the merrier! The more of us that apply pressure on Congress, the more likely something might actually change.