Marsha Blackburn Quotes

I have never been opposed to earmarks.

Politicians like to confuse congressional spending with earmarks. There is a difference.

There's no doubt about it, earmarks are not very popular. There are good earmarks and bad earmarks. The good earmarks are the ones I get for my district.

The Pig Book

George W. Bush is a big spender…. When Congress sends up a bill with big. fat, crackling pork, he says, “Where’s the barbecue sauce?”

I'm sick and tired - and the American people are sick and tired - of the pork barrel spending.

I don't disagree with Senator McCain when he talks about the earmark process.

I am guilty of asking the Senate for pork and proud of the Senate for giving it to me.

In Congress, it's all pork, all the time.

So, the point I'm making is, we are not going to cut spending in Washington if we think it's the job of every congressman and senator is to pave local parking lots and build local sewer plants. These parochial interests are getting in the way of the national interests.

Those members of Congress who want to bring back pork to their districts should stand up proudly and be counted.

We all have to pay when powerful members of Congress work to bring home the bacon.

The root of most all problems we have today is the uncontrollable appetite of politicians in Washington to dish it out.

The President is going around the country handing out so much pork that the Agriculture Department is going to have to station a meat inspector on board Air Force One.

Each year Citizens Against Government Waste releases the 'Congressional Pig Book.' Outrage over spending for shrimp on treadmills, combating Goth culture studies, bridges to nowhere, etc. ensues for about a week, and then the waste continues.

Let me say this, to all of the chattering class that so much focuses on those little tiny, yes, porky amendments - the American people really don't care.

The first pork-barrel bill that crosses my desk, I'm going to veto it and make the authors of those pork-barrel items famous all over America.

We know that appropriators will fight these cutbacks. But by eliminating earmarks, we can stop the horse trading that grows agency budgets.

Congress: Bingo with billions.

There's a lot of politics over who gets the next allocation of Congressional funding.

Anytime a large, emergency spending bill makes its way through Congress, the potential for mischief is great.

We see people voting for bills that their ideals and principles are opposed to, but because their little funding project is in there, they're voting for it. We might say it's one percent of all spending but the impact of that spending is far greater.

The U.S. Senate does not allow legislative provisions to be included in appropriations bills, for much the same reason that most Americans are concerned about earmarks: it creates a slippery slope by which lobbyists and special interest groups can sneak provisions into large, must-pass legislation.

Homeland Security money ought not to be allocated on a pork barrel basis.

Remember that every dollar spent by the federal government is spent in somebody's district.