May 29, 2007
Senate Panel Agrees To Disclose Earmarks In Defense Bill
The Senate Armed Services Committee has taken a hard line on earmarks, agreeing to fully disclose add-ons for pet projects tucked into annual defense authorization measures. Senate Armed Services ranking member John McCain, R-Ariz., and Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., sponsored disclosure language during a closed-door markup of the FY08 defense authorization bill last week.
Committee and conference reports on the bill must list the name of the sponsor and the intended location of the program for any projects not requested by the Bush administration in either annual or supplemental spending requests and not listed on the military services' unfunded requirements lists, according to a copy of the language posted on the Project on Government Oversight Web site and verified by Senate aides.
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