[SoFloFreeper]

Reps. Marilyn Musgrave, R-Colo., Mark Udall, D-Colo., and Jim Cooper, D-Tenn., have a bill under which the president would send to Congress, in the form of legislation, a list of projects he believes should not be funded.

Congress would then be required to vote within 15 days, by a simple majority rather than the two-thirds needed to override a veto, on whether to keep the project alive.

It "allows the president to shine the light of day on specific item in federal spending," Musgrave said. "The climate is right for it."

This is a rather good idea. Another one I thought of: Pass a law allowing the President to "line item" veto any "earmarked" piece of spending--something not specifically voted on by the Congress. Now, this might result in the President nitpicking against his political enemies, but it also could allow him to weed out all sorts of garbage, the kind like Pork King Robert Byrd (Klansman) infuses into every bill.

[Feiny]

How about passing legislation which eliminates all add-ons, pork, pet projects, earmarks....whatever they want to call them. The spending bills should not have anything tacked on...plus they should have to justify the actual spending bills using the Constitution as the sole basis. That would get rid of 60% of the crap. Dare to dream...