Earmarks: Rep. Frank R. Wolf, R-10th, has requested federal earmarks for two projects. One would provide more money for anti-gang and drug task forces in Virginia, and the other would continue funding mass-transit upgrades in the Dulles corridor.

Rep. Eric I. Cantor, R-7th, will make no such requests and wants a moratorium on earmarks, according to a spokesman.

Critics say earmarking has funneled billions of dollars to home districts outside of merit-based and competitive federal grant processes.

Freshman Rep. Robert J. Wittman, R-1st, vowed to seek federal funding only for projects that also will receive state, local or private funding, a spokesman said. Reps. James P. Moran, D-8th, Robert C. Scott, D-3rd, and Virgil H. Goode Jr., R-5th, do not disclose earmarks they have requested until the money is budgeted, aides said.

Tomorrow is the deadline for representatives to file earmark requests in the House Appropriations Committee.

Webb's autobiography: Democratic Sen. Jim Webb says his autobiography, "A Time to Fight," is more personal than anything he has written.

Speaking to reporters at a breakfast Wednesday hosted by The Christian Science Monitor, Webb said the book, due out May 22 from Random House, deals with "who we are as a country.

"There's a chapter on who looks over my shoulder when I try to make decisions," he said. "There's a section called 'What Went Wrong' -- talking about economic fairness."

Other chapters deal with "our failed criminal justice system" and "where we go from here," Webb said.

No to abstinence-only: Moran led 76 House members in asking Appropriation Committee leaders to eliminate federal funding for abstinence-only sex-education programs in next year's budget.

A government report had found the programs do not deter teens from becoming sexually active. The current budget includes $113 million for the abstinence-education program.

Scott on guns: Scott said a logistical glitch kept his name off a legal brief filed with the Supreme Court in support of Washington's ban on handguns. Thirteen other representatives, including Moran, signed the brief. Justices heard oral arguments Tuesday.

Scott said he supports the ban and that the Second Amendment right to bear arms was not intended to be an individual right. -- Neil H. Simon, Media General News Service