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.

Also, I wanted to let you know that I will be a guest on Sean Hannity's show on Fox News tonight. The show airs at 7pm (AZ Time) and we will be talking 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.