Kudos to Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) who introduced legislation earlier this week to enhance taxpayers’ access to federal spending records and earmark information. Cornyn's Federal Spending and Taxpayer Accessibility Act of 2008 will shed more light on government spending by creating an online earmark tracking system, providing taxpayer record statements and enhancing agency expenditure transparency.

Undoubtedly, Congress has been living on the high on the hog with massive spending increases but fortunately, since his election in 2002, Sen. Cornyn has been part of the solution, not the problem.

For more info on this new earmark transparency legislation, see: http://cornyn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ForPress.NewsReleases&ContentRecord_id=4e3ac746-802a-23ad-43d3-a43a16126f27