NDOL: Idea of the Week: A Reform Insurgency: "It's time for Democrats to aggressively champion budget reforms, including a restoration of budget controls like spending caps and pay-as-you-go. But Democrats should go further and demand an assault on corporate welfare in the tax code and federal programs; a ban on 'earmarks' in spending bills that let Members send pork back home; a crackdown on or even an abolition of the power of appropriations committees; and other dramatic steps. This is not just a matter of 'good government'; these reforms go to the heart of the fiscal irresponsibility in Washington."