From the Politico : Jim DeMint demands that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid guarantee that Senate earmark transparency reforms — the ones Democrats have pledged and Nancy Pelosi supports — won’t be purged in a House-Senate conference.

“The House has no reason to tinker with Senate rules,” said Wesley Denton, DeMint’s spokesman. “The only reason to want to put them in conference is because they intend to change them.”Jim Manley, Reid’s spokesman, calls those assertions “phony as a two-dollar bill.”