Resources

Links

• The Ferguson Group - http://www.fergusongroup.us/

• eCivis - eCivis improves local government grant success around the country as the industry-leading provider of expert grant research, information, and technology. http://eCivis.com/

• House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations - http://appropriations.house.gov

• Senate Committee on Appropriations - http://appropriations.senate.gov

• Office of Management and Budget - http://earmarks.omb.gov - assists the president in overseeing the preparation of the federal budget and supervising its administration in Executive Branch agencies.

• Associated Press Managing Editors Association - http://www.apme.com/earmarks

Other Voices

The following links offer detailed information on earmarks with a focus on earmark reform.

• Sunlight Foundation - http://www.sunlightfoundation.com - “an organization committed to helping citizens, bloggers and journalists be their own best congressional watchdogs, by improving access to existing information and digitizing new information, and by creating new tools and Web sites to enable all of us to collaborate in fostering greater transparency”

• Taxpayers for Common Sense – http://www.taxpayer.net - “an independent and non-partisan voice for taxpayers working to increase transparency and expose and eliminate wasteful and corrupt subsidies, earmarks, and corporate welfare.

• Citizens Against Government Waste – http://www.cagw.org - a private, non-partisan, non-profit organization representing more than one million members and supporters nationwide.