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 tran...

Well, if you would have told me when I came to Congress eight years ago that I would be voting on a "stimulus" package totaling nearly a trillion dollars, I wouldn't have believed you. But that's where we are. A deal has been struck and the House will vote today.

In truth, there is very little stimulus in this stimulus bill. At best, it wastes billions of dollars on marginal projects, many of which have no federal nex...