Incumbents & Candidates Sign CCAGW’s No Pork Pledge

Despite congressional reforms over the past several years to reduce pork barreling and increase earmark accountability and transparency, earmarks continue to figure prominently as the “currency of corruption” on Capitol Hill, undermining the federal budgetary process and our democratic system of government.  In an effort to encourage more members of Congress and candidates for office to kick the earmarking habit, CCAGW has launched a new no-gimmicks, anti-pork pledge.

By signing CCAGW’s No Pork Pledge, incumbents and candidates vow not to request any pork-barrel earmark, which is defined as meeting one of the following criteria:

• Requested by only one chamber of Congress
• Not specifically authorized
• Not competitively awarded
• Not requested by the President
• Greatly exceeds the President’s budget request or the previous year’s funding
• Not the subject of congressional hearings
• Serves only a local or special interest

No Pork Pledge -- House Version
No Pork Pledge -- Senate Version

Tell Congress: Sign the No Pork Pledge!

Current signatories* as of 09/17/2010:

Alaska

Joe Miller (R)

Arizona

Pamela Gorman (R)
J.D. Hayworth (R)
Steve Moak (R)

Arkansas

Gilbert Baker (R)
Rick Crawford (R)

California

Michael Crimmins (R)
Jeff Denham (R).
John Dennis (R)
David Harmer (R)
Jim Patterson (R)
Richard Pombo (R)
Dana Walsh (R)

Colorado

Cory Gardner (R)
Bob McConnell (R)
Lang Sias (R)

Connecticut

Dan Debicella (R)

Florida

Sandy Adams (R)
Karen Diebel (R)
George LeMieux (R)
David Rivera (R)
Jason Sager (R)
Alexander Snitker (R)

Georgia

Jody Hice (R)

Hawaii

John Willoughby (R)

Idaho

Raul Labrador (R)
Walt Minnick (D)

Illinois

Randy Hultgren (R)
Joe Walsh (R)

Indiana

Dan Coats (R)
Phillip Troyer (R)
Todd Young (R)

Iowa

Brad Zaun (R)
Kentucky
Rand Paul (R)

Massachusetts

Jeff Perry (R)

Michigan

Justin Amash (R)
Jack Hoogendyk (R)
Rocky Raczkowski (R)

Minnesota

Thomas Schrunk (R)

Montana

Billy Long (R)
Mike Fellows (R)

North Carolina

Virginia Foxx (R)
William Lawson (R)

New Hampshire

Kelly Ayotte (R)

New Jersey

Michael Alonso (R)
Roland Straten (R)

New York

Matt Doheny (R)
Chris Gibson (R)
Nan Hayworth (R)
Doug Hoffman (R)
Jay Townsend (R)

Nevada

Sharron Angle (R)
Sue Lowden (R)
Danny Tarkanian (R)

Ohio

Rich Iott (R)
Richard Stobbs (R)

Oklahoma

Kevin Calvey (R)
Tom Coburn (R)
Jim Huffman (R)

Oregon

Delia Lopez (R)

Pennsylvania

David Madeira (R)
Joseph Pitts (R)
Keith Rothfus (R)
Frank Ryan (R)
Pat Toomey (R)

South Carolina

Jeff Duncan (R)

Tennessee

Dave Evans (R)
Stephen Fincher (R)
Ron Kirkland (R)
Savas Kyriakidis (Con)
Robin Smith (R)

Texas

Mike Brasovan (R)
Kenny Marchant (R)
Rick Perry (R)

Utah

Tim Bridgewater (R)

Virginia

Bert Mizusawa (R)
Patrick Murray (R)

West Virginia

David McKinley (R)

Washington

Matthew Burke (R)
David Castillo (R)
James Watkins (R)

Wisconsin

Ron Johnson (R)
Mark Neumann (R)

*Being listed on this website as a signatory to the No Pork Pledge does not imply endorsement by CCAGW.