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The effort was launched on (aka " Instapundit ") began promoting the idea and the influential-though-anonymous blogger N.Z. Bear set up a website showing which members of the U.S. Congress had committed to cutting projects in their own districts to help offset the disaster recovery effort. Reynolds encourages his readers to send him copies of pork-cutting letters they send to their representatives and Senators, along with the responses from the elected officials. He then posts these on his website under the heading "Porkbusters Update". In operation for less than six weeks, as of October 13, 2005 the project has already managed to garner $ 84,000,000 in specific budget cut commitments out of various Representatives and non-specific agreements out of many more. In addition, those Representatives who have been contacted and have negative responses are highlighted and their contact information is made available for their constituents. COBURN AMENDMENT The Porkbusters project has recently endorsed the . This amendment has also gained the support of liberal blogger Markos Zúniga . {Link without Title} . The amendment was defeated 82-15. NEXT PHASE On October 30 , 2005 , N.Z. Bear posted an entry to his blog entitled The Next Phase of Porkbusters . In it he states :"''Porkbusters is shifting its focus from raising awareness of pork to calling attention to specific legislation that actually starts eliminating pork. The first bill that we are focusing on is sponsored by seven Senators who have styled themselves the "Fiscal Responsibility Team": Tom Coburn , Sam Brownback , Jim DeMint , John Ensign , Lindsey Graham , John McCain , and John Sununu .''" This phase indeed seems to be progressive, if slowly. As of December 9 th, 2005 , Senator Coburn has the Porkbuster logo on his site , along with a separate page listing his Porkbuster efforts . MEDIA COVERAGE
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