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Earmarks

What lawmakers slipped into the $460 billion spending package

by Kimberly Adams
Mar 12, 2024
Earmarks promise to spend money on specific projects requested by individual members of Congress.
In this latest funding package, there are more than 6,000 earmarks totaling more than $12 billion, according to an analysis by Bloomberg Government.
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Earmarks are back, and they could be key to Biden's infrastructure plans

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
May 13, 2021
Earmarks — money members of Congress request for projects back home — could make it easier for lawmakers to get on board.
Earmarks benefit lawmakers' constituents and could entice more members of Congress to support infrastructure spending.
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Earmarks make a comeback in a closely divided Congress

by Kimberly Adams
Mar 12, 2021
Opponents argue earmarks opened the door to corruption and waste. Supporters argue they'll help make Congress more effective.
Sandy Washington, executive director of LifeStyles in La Plata, Maryland. Her group received a $60,000 earmark before the ban.
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Trump's support of earmarks gets a mixed reception

by Kimberly Adams
Jan 10, 2018
President Donald Trump, at a bipartisan meeting on immigration yesterday, voiced support for earmarks – the system, effectively banned by the GOP back in 2010, which allowed members of Congress to attach special language to funding bills to direct money to their pet projects. How did earmarks get such a bad reputation in the first […]
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Fiscal Cliff

Would 'earmarks' have helped fiscal cliff talks?

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
Dec 31, 2012
'Bridges to Nowhere' and other pork-barrel spending used to be the grease for deal-making in Congress.
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