Rep. David Obey and the bipartisan House leadership deserve credit for arriving at an agreement yesterday regarding earmark procedures for most of the FY 2008 spending bills to come before the House floor over the next several weeks and months, providing that members will have the opportunity to review and amend such earmarks as they deem fit. This agreement should have been unnecessary and the struggle to achieve it left many dismayed. But advocates, the media, ordinary citizens and, indubitably, members of Congress worked hard -- in some cases in the face of potential reprisal -- to restore a key measure of transparency and accountability to the budget-making process. OMB Watch expresses particular gratitude to its partners in this effort, Americans for Prosperity, the Sunlight Foundation, and Taxpayers for Common Sense.