The line-up of Republicans vying for leadership positions is a great encouragement to me that the GOP rank-and-file will indeed have the opportunity to show citizens that they got the message. Congress Daily reports that the choices for Budget Committee ranking member are Reps. Ander Crenshaw, tepid on fiscal issues at best, and Wisconsin's very own Paul Ryan, "a young conservative firebrand in the mold of former Budget Chairman John Kasich, R-Ohio."

Ryan is a strong taxpayer advocate and supporter of earmark reform and his support for cutting wasteful spending extends to his voting record, not just his rhetoric. 

Thanks to Congressman Jeff Flake's 19 anti-pork amendments, taxpayers such as you have every House member on record as to what they're real MO is when it comes to pork-barrel spending. Ryan scored 100% on our scorecard of Flake's amendments, but guess what? Although Ander Crenshaw claims to support earmark reform on his campaign website >>> "Finally, I believe we should adopt measures to bring more accountability and transparency to the budget earmark process. ... No one said it would be easy, but in order to restore fiscal responsibility to the federal budget process, Congress must reform the budget process" >>>> Representative Crenshaw's actions speak louder than his words.

Crenshaw, along with Alcee Hastings and Corrine Brown scored a big fact zero, having voted against every Flake amendment to remove wasteful spending from the budget.