Here's a data point that would make a lot of the media coverage about the elections more informative:

• 67 signers of the Contract From America won their House and Senate races and 10 more undecided races include Contract signers.

That's huge.  That's the mandate.

Breaking that number down a little more, 12 Senators-elect and 55 House Members-elect signed the Contract From America. And 3 undecided Senate races and 7 undecided House races feature signers.

I personally applaud the House Republican Conference for passing a moratorium against out-of-control earmarks. The powerful Tea Party movement has shown that taxpayers are frustrated with the reckless way Washington is spending their hard-earned money.

Watch the video of Carl Mumpower signing the FreedomWorks No Earmarks Pledge. Carl is running for Congress in the 11th Congressional District in North Carolina.

I just got this from FreedomWorks super-activist Bill Lack in Buncombe County, North Carolina. Watch one of our best local chapters in action, as they visit Congressman Heath Shuler. You can watch them deliver our "No Earmarks Pledge" to his staff.

Senator Hillary Clinton is the queen of pork barrel spending for fiscal year 2009. As The Hill reports, she is asking for $2.3 billion in earmarks for New York at the expense of taxpayers.

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