These earmarks correspond to 482 earmarks costing $541.7 million in fiscal 2023.
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Districts with lots of farmers got agriculture-related earmarks; districts with large military bases got defense-related earmarks, and so forth.
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"I hear so much about earmarks, the old earmark system, how there was a great friendliness when you had earmarks," Trump said.
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Earmarks House Republicans kick off hearings on re-instituting earmarks this week after banning them when they took control of the House in 2011.
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Democrats also say that new rules and limitations imposed on the earmarks would ensure transparency and accountability in a way that didn't exist with previous earmarks.
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In peer-reviewed research, I found that - before Congress did away with earmarks in 2011 - members tended to procure earmarks that were good fits for their district.
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House GOP to vote on bringing back earmarks: Three GOP congressmen have issued an amendment to the House Republican Conference rules that would overturn the ban on earmarks.
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The case for earmarks: Some argue that earmarks help garner bipartisan support for bills by giving individual members of the minority party stronger reasons to support spending legislation.
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This year's Pig Book alleges that the number of earmarks has increased from 76.53 in 2016 to 165 in 2017, continuing the gradual increase of earmarks since a moratorium in 500.
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"Our system lends itself to not getting things done, and I hear so much about earmarks — the old earmark system — how there was a great friendliness when you had earmarks," he said.
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"It continues the trend toward silos and earmarks," she says.
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He said that maybe Congress should bring back earmarks — a.k.a.
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The investigation the office did into earmarks really sticks out.
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Earmarks play a practical role in facilitating cooperation among members.
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Their joint research focuses on congressional earmarks, parties and elections.
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"It is highly unlikely something called 'earmarks' return," Joyce said.
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Earmarks let us harness that incentive to get bills passed.
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Other lawmakers also expressed support for bringing back earmarks. Rep.
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Earmarks are a bad word for making good things happen.
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This was a mistake and it's time to reinstate earmarks.
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We all know earmarks and lobbying influence policymakers and policy.
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The proposal would require members sponsoring earmarks to be identified.
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"I'm for earmarks, I've made that pretty clear publicly," Rep.
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"Our system lends itself to not getting things done, and I hear so much about earmarks — the old earmark system — how there was a great friendliness when you had earmarks," Mr. Trump said Tuesday.
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Earmarks could make a return, with some restrictions, to grease dealmaking.
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"I'm one of the kinds of earmarks," the retiring Nevadan said.
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When Republicans took back the House in 2010, Congress banned earmarks.
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Proponents suggest allowing earmarks will allow Congress to be more productive.
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It helped cut down on gifts and helped curtail congressional earmarks.
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Earmarks are a vital incentive to encourage lawmakers to support legislation.
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Today, it's ironic, that the Republicans' talk of bringing earmarks back.
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"Anybody that uses 'earmarks' is irresponsible," Sessions said about the term.
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"The swampiest of swamp creatures is what earmarks are," McCaskill said.
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In some cases, earmarks have led to flat out illegal behavior.
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The spending package earmarks $10 billion for highways, airports, railroads and broadband.
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Conservatives and Republicans got far less electoral traction out of traditional earmarks.
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Bringing back earmarks is in no way a panacea to congressional ills.
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It is one of the biggest and baddest earmarks of all time.
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The people voted to drain the swamp, not decorate it with earmarks.
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"This is not a good time to talk about earmarks," he said.
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The fiscal 28503 omnibus spending package included 22019,000 earmarks totaling $5 billion.
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"It has all the earmarks of a religious exemption," Ms. Lieberman said.
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Opponents argue earmarks will lead to more wasteful spending on pet projects.
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The EVE V laptop has all the earmarks of a Surface Pro.
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But it's unlikely earmarks will actually solve his problems on Capitol Hill.
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Earmarks, for all the complaints about their evils, weren't actually evil things.
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Since the demise of earmarks, Congress has become more dysfunctional and polarized.
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Namibia earmarks a small quota of the animals to be hunted annually.
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Earmarks soften the lottery's image, helping to attract otherwise non-gambling citizens.
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Party rules implemented by Democrats in 2007 included banning earmarks for private sector projects, making public the list of earmarks and who requested them, and requiring members to verify they have no personal financial stake in the request.
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The proper way to reinstate earmarks that eliminates partisan motives would be to adhere to the following guidelines: Earmarks can be a valuable budgeting tool but more importantly, they are a constitutional responsibility of each members of Congress.
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In the 2900th Congress, when the names of members who requested earmarks were included in the appropriations bills, 220006 percent of the earmarks and 2202 percent of the money went to members of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees.
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"When earmarks were around, they gave members a reason to pay attention to appropriations — they always knew they had some skin in the game," said Mr. Kelly, who co-wrote a book about earmarks and their benefit to democracy.
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He began in the House in 2001 as an outsider raging against earmarks.
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Believe it or not, these are the kinds of things most earmarks fund.
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Another point in earmarks' favor is that they tend to be relatively cheap.
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Hannon said she earmarks a percentage of her income for her favorite charities.
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It's also because they understand that without earmarks, the system just doesn't work.
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But removing earmarks from the system has not increased American trust in Congress.
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Earmarks fell into disrepute at the same time the budget process broke down.
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On that front, "Republicans have explicitly lied about what earmarks do," Hudak said.
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When Trump suggested bringing back earmarks, he did so with an important caveat.
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"There's nothing that earmarks this type of money for a wall," he said.
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It earmarks $12.4 billion specifically for NASA's moon landing program in fiscal 2021.
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Federal funds are no longer given out through earmarks; that stopped in 2010.
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All the old incentives to get things done, most importantly earmarks, are gone.
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But we saw no evidence that earmarks were critical to make legislative progress.
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Trump's not wrong that earmarks often greased the skids to get legislation passed.
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The bill earmarks particular funds available to cover the costs of these benefits.
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There's also incentive for lawmakers representing low-income populations to allow earmarks. Rep.
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Earmarks have also been proven to favor the most powerful members of Congress.
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Bringing back earmarks would instead signal that the swamp is here to stay.
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The White House's proposal also earmarks a total of $171.5 billion for the Navy.
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CAGW president Tom Schatz said Wednesday's event was aimed at preventing earmarks from spreading.
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The effect of banning earmarks, however, had serious consequences for members and committee chairs.
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The other thing that sounds counterintuitive is to reinstitute earmarks or pork barrel legislation.
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Duke Cunningham accepted cash bribes for directing federal contracts via earmarks to military contractors.
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Congress stopped the authorization of most non-defense spending, where earmarks were generally included.
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For example, he calls it a "mistake" for the last Congress to ban earmarks.
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Earmarks will always be an ominous threat to the integrity of the legislative process.
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Earmarks of discretionary spending shot up drastically early this month as the vote loomed.
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"It has the earmarks of a spree killing," Bonn offered of the Tampa saga.
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So no, Mr. President, Congress does not need to bring earmarks back to Washington.
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"Earmarks out on the hinterlands -- it's not a good word right now," he said.
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She noted earmarks are not based on merit and there's no cost-benefit analysis.
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Some critics have accused TIGER projects of being "boondoggles," or the equivalent of administrative earmarks.
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"This is my ability to tell them, no, you're doing it," he said of earmarks.
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After years of corrupt governing, Republicans insisted even legislative earmarks were too impure for America.
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Eliminating earmarks had no impact on overall spending, but unnecessarily transferred authority to unelected bureaucrats.
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This constituent-rooted system was borne out in the types of earmarks that got funded.
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Everybody who wanted earmarks got at least something, no matter what party they were in.
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They look suspiciously like earmarks, but there is no doubt some loophole that allowed them.
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Such reforms include a strict cap on the dollar value of earmarks for each district.
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Earmarks corrupt democracy by eclipsing more important matters in the minds of legislators and voters.
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Restoring earmarks can be a major incentive to restore the broken authorization and budget processes.
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Democrats put in ethics safeguards around earmarks in 2007, requiring members to publicly disclose requests.
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The most glaring examples of ugly earmarks have been for projects both big and small.
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Critics further point out the White House's plan earmarks only $200 billion in federal investment.
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More infamously, earmarks are also responsible for the corruption and subsequent jail terms of Reps.
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" Other lawmakers in support of the effort also avoided referring to the practice as "earmarks.
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The problem is that for years earmarks were used as what amounts to legalized bribery.
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As a result, a ban on earmarks was a central plank in the tea party agenda.
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Over the years, that test was applied to the controversy over so-called "earmarks" in Congress.
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That is, members will trade votes on legislation for earmarks that they can send back home.
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Earmarks were often used to sweeten the pot for reluctant lawmakers to support a broader bill.
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Earmarks were prohibited, and insistence on spending cuts was an essential part of the Republican agenda.
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There are also concerns regarding which legislators benefit most in a system with openly incorporated earmarks.
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Some earmarks were added into the bills, but many were only referred to in report language.
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It honed in on only allowing earmarks on projects run by the Army Corps of Engineers.
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When Republicans in prior Congresses acted against earmarks, they were concerned about both cost and fairness.
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Advocates for earmarks argue that they create opportunities to fund neglected services or projects outside Washington.
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President Trump's support for restoring congressional earmarks is drawing resistance from those in his own party.
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He vowed to veto any bill that contained earmarks in his 85033 State of the Union address.
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There are other reasons more internal to Congress why some members might want to bring back earmarks.
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"It's never going to be easy," Hoyer said at a hearing earlier this year, referring to earmarks.
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Well-placed, powerful members definitely got more earmarks than the rank-and-file, but that's not unusual.
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The explosion in earmarks prompted a backlash that helped Democrats win control of the House in 2628.
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There have been truly corrupt earmarks, but those are very rare and the result of illegal activity.
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But Fidel Castro's impact on Latin America and the Western Hemisphere has the earmarks of lasting indefinitely.
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It also encouraged members to cut deals to bring home earmarks that would help them get elected.
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At the peak of their excess, earmarks still represented only a sliver of the annual federal budget.
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While House Democrats decided against reinstating earmarks last year, they left the door open for the future.
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Appropriators are set to continue meeting this week to hammer out specifics, including timing, for reintroducing earmarks.
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Another argument for bringing back earmarks is that the ban has made it harder to pass legislation.
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The property earmarks specific weekends just for families and a Kids Camp offers parents some down time.
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But the New York Democrat added that legislators in both chambers "must discuss the issue of earmarks in our respective caucuses and conferences to determine member preferences, solicit ideas to ensure that taxpayer dollars are spent wisely, and when applicable, change rules to permit members to request earmarks."
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We pledged to not request any earmarks, supported extending the earmark moratorium and supported a permanent earmark ban.
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I encourage all my colleagues, on both sides of the aisle, to publicly pledge their opposition to earmarks.
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Asked after the November election about the GOP's efforts to revive earmarks, Pelosi appeared amenable to the change.
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It earmarks the epidemic as a "gay disease," an untrue association we have spent thirty-five years unraveling.
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Moreover we found essentially no correlation between the amount of money going towards earmarks and the budget deficit.
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As it turns out, those same chairs and ranking members keep an extra share of earmarks for themselves.
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Without his leadership on earmarks, there would not be a moratorium on this wasteful and corrupt practice. Sen.
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Yet some Congressional Republicans are actually proposing to revive legislative earmarks—the quintessence of wasteful Capitol Hill cronyism.
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The proliferation of earmarks fueled the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal and led to the downfall of former Rep.
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But while there is growing enthusiasm in the House for bringing back earmarks, some Senate Republicans remain skeptical.
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The publication of the "2016 Congressional Pig Book" is the latest reminder that earmarks should be permanently banned.
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Party leaders and committee chairmen wielded tools such as earmarks, campaign funds and leadership posts to whip votes.
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But while earmarks were once Washington's favorite fuel, the prospect of their return is already creating a backlash.
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Donald Trump's budget proposal for 2021 earmarks $1.2 billion for nuclear energy research and development and related programs.
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The former speaker described his difficulties in banning earmarks, or measures that funded projects in lawmaker's home districts.
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Some members have suggested that the proven process for project approval be bypassed and appropriation earmarks be reinstated.
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Just hours before Trump made his comments on Wednesday, Ryan was asked whether earmarks will have a comeback.
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The breakdown includes over $1.2 billion for 31 earmarks for health and disease research under the Defense Health Program.
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Where are the signs, the graphic photos of dead mothers in protest, the research institutes, the laws and earmarks?
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" "This is part of the reason behind the push for the return of the once-hated E-word: earmarks.
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More from Tonic: She says breakups have three earmarks of regrets that are deeply felt and often ruminated over.
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That time is in addition to his volunteer work at a local church that earmarks donations for his show.
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The Republican-controlled Congress banned earmarks in 2011 at the charge of then-Speaker of the House John Boehner.
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Cole acknowledged reinstating earmarks in an election year would be tough and stressed that any effort should be bipartisan.
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"No matter what the Congress does on earmarks, it ought to be done in a bipartisan way," he added.
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Oklahoma's settlement is a move in the right direction, as it earmarks specific funds for research and local treatment.
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Intensive anti-gang programs in the Virginia suburbs were cut 85 percent, a casualty of Congress's elimination of earmarks.
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According to the group, earmarks in 2018 totaled $103 billion, an increase of 116.2 percent from $6.8 billion in 2017.
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Separately, it earmarks an additional $2.8 billion to fund treatment and prevention of opioid addiction and research into the subject.
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But they acknowledge that this week's flap over the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) has chilled the conversation around earmarks.
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In other words, no earmarks should appear for the first time in a conference report, where they cannot be amended.
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With this in mind, we feel the time is right to revisit how earmarks worked and their impact on Congress.
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It also does not seem to be the case that earmarks are primarily used to shore up the electorally vulnerable.
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It's not a coincidence that seven years ago is when Congress changed their internal rules to do away with earmarks.
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Such comments are belied by the history of earmarks, under which the distribution of funds has always been grossly disproportionate.
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Since 1991, according to Citizens Against Government Waste's Congressional Pig Book, there have been 110,605 earmarks costing taxpayers $329.8 billion.
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One of the most frequently used arguments in favor of earmarks is that they would help pass certain spending bills.
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Tonight's highlights include another Democratic push for Trump's tax returns, mounting Senate border-adjustment concerns and a battle over earmarks.
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But when Trump was talking about earmarks, it wasn't in the vein of giving more power to the legislative branch.
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Trump said bringing back earmarks would allow for everyone to get along again, but the jury's out on that point.
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The last time all appropriations bills were passed in regular order and on time precedes the explosive growth of earmarks.
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Three GOP congressmen have issued an amendment to the House Republican Conference rules that would overturn the ban on earmarks.
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Today, thanks to the Tea Party elections – which excesses like earmarks helped inspire – conservatives aren't on the outside looking in.
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In the past, earmarks were abused, often appropriating money for wasteful projects or additional spending that had not been authorized.
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In the end, earmarks never accounted for large percentage of federal spending, but they became an outsized symbol of waste.
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"Bringing back earmarks is the antithesis of draining the swamp," Club for Growth President David McIntosh said in a statement.
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Shortly after the 2016 election, Ryan attempted to quash the idea of reviving earmarks, saying it wasn't the right time.
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Congressional leaders once had the power to use earmarks as a way to corral the necessary votes to pass legislation.
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The measure was held up for several years because House Republican rules labeled the measures as earmarks, which are banned.
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Congress banned "earmarks" years ago, with members voluntarily surrendering their power to direct agencies to spend money on specific projects.
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Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid said he strongly opposes the ban on earmarks that was put in place over his objections.
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Just days after the 2016 election, Ryan stepped in and stalled an effort among rank-and-file Republicans to revive earmarks.
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One decade later, House Democrats are toying with the idea of bringing earmarks back -- despite the political peril it would bring.
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One might think the public – on both sides of the aisle – have no interest in seeing earmarks raised from the dead.
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Owner Joe Lacob, although he has donated to certain Republican campaigns, earmarks much more of his money on the Democratic side.
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The loss of earmarks that enabled party leaders to funnel cash to lawmakers in return for votes has made legislating tougher.
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The deal, which does not affect owners outside the US, earmarks nearly $15 billion to repair or buy back affected vehicles.
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But based on the factual record made public through us, the House decided to ban earmarks, and the Senate followed suit.
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There's renewed talk on Capitol Hill of a possible return to earmarks if the Democrats win back the House in November.
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Republicans, meanwhile, have made suggestions that include reviving earmarks only for certain infrastructure needs, such as Army Corps of Engineers projects.
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Earmarks are spending projects, which are requested by individual members and included in bills without getting voted on by other members.
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Earmarks give members of Congress "skin in the game" when deciding how to vote on big bills with major national implications.
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But House Republicans should be on notice that reviving earmarks from the grave would be a nightmare through the 2018 elections.
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Eliminate duplicative foreign aid programs, improve coordination of remaining programs, end congressional "earmarks," and terminate programs that do not work. 6900.
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Without benchmarks, governments are simply making spending lists — earmarks — with little assurance that public funds are spent in an optimal way.
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Most members of Congress don't just think earmarks are a good idea because they love getting money for their home districts.
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So if banning earmarks didn't reduce spending and didn't increase trust in Congress as an institution, what did the ban produce?
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As required by House rules, Ways and Means would certify that there are no spending earmarks and would publish a list.
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However, the difference in the definition of earmarks between CAGW and Congress has existed since the first "Pig Book" in 28500.
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Pork barrel spending won't be returning to Congress any time soon after Senate Republicans this week moved to permanently ban earmarks.
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"We got beaten like a borrowed mule in the 2006 elections largely because of the corruption that came with earmarks," Sen.
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The discussion about earmarks came amid uncertainty over whether Congress can avoid a government shutdown at the end of this week.
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Majority Leader Hoyer and the Democrats in the house can mitigate both the perception of corruption -- and rare instances of actual corruption -- in earmarks by creating a transparent and fair system that gives taxpayers a full account of all congressional earmarks, and allows for a fair vetting process that weeds out any that don't pass the giggle test.
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The idea here is that a venture capital firm specifically earmarks some of the money in an existing fund for crypto projects.
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While reinstating earmarks has long had bipartisan support, the idea faced highly dubious prospects in the Senate, particularly in an election year.
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Reviving earmarks could be easier for Democrats since they never prohibited them, and the moratorium was never included in the House rules.
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It is no coincidence that since the House banned the use of earmarks, its approval ratings have not climbed above 20 percent.
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When John Boehner and Mitch McConnell banned earmarks in 2011, they thought it would help reduce spending and improve trust in government.
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The "2016 Congressional Pig Book" exposes 123 earmarks in fiscal 2016, an increase of 17.1 percent from the 105 in fiscal 2015.
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The cost of earmarks in fiscal 2016 is $5.1 billion, an increase of 21.4 percent from the $85003 billion in fiscal 2015.
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Among the first actions taken by Republicans when they retook the U.S. House in 2010 was to institute a ban on earmarks.
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Even for members who opposed him, the way Senator Claire McCaskill, Democrat of Missouri, did on earmarks, Mr. Schumer has shown understanding.
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The current PEPFAR leadership has shuttered countless circumcision clinics in a rush to abide by extant U.S. Congressional funding "earmarks" for treatment.
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But specifically carving out federal money for projects could spark accusations of "pork barrel spending" or "administrative earmarks," especially from fiscal conservatives.
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But if some members of Congress prevail, earmarks will not only recur, they will grow quickly and spread throughout the federal budget.
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"One of the earmarks of white supremacy culture is valuing (white) property over (Black & Brown) ppl," Ms. Collins recently wrote on Twitter.
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Speaker Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin said this week that he supports his party having "conversations" about allowing earmarks to re-emerge.
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The earmarks would have to be initiated during the committee process, and they could not increase total spending for any fiscal year.
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Critics seized on frivolous projects to attack the system, and Republicans opted to ban earmarks when they won the House in 2010.
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President Donald Trump even endorsed a return to earmarks in 2018, saying that it led to "great friendliness" among Republicans and Democrats.
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Still, even a watered-down version of earmarks could provide Republicans with all the fodder they need to make biting political ads.
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And a former Federal Aviation Administration accident investigation chief, Jeff Guzzetti, said the crash carried 'all the earmarks of an intentional act.
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"It's pretty simple: Earmarks are a crummy way to govern and they have no business in Congress," Sasse said in a statement.
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"We got beaten like a borrowed mule in the 2006 elections largely because of the corruption that came with earmarks," Flake said.
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Lastly, to ensure a transparent process with competitive spending with state and local projects, earmarks should be a thing of the past.
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She joins Eugenia Collier, Maya Angelou, and Toni Morrison in articulating how the loss of innocence earmarks one's transition from childhood to adulthood.
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Again, we would like to see organic earnings growth, organic revenue growth, and this is one that doesn't show the earmarks of that.
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Despite Trump's pledge to make Mexico pay for the wall, the bill earmarks taxpayer money to construct a carrier along the southwest border.
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Tonight's highlights include the return of earmarks, a warning on trade from George W. Bush and advice for Trump from the IRS commissioner.
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The results for taxpayers have been a disaster in the past giving way to billions of dollars in earmarks, tax increases, and bailouts.
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Plus, in one important way there was actually less political rancor over earmarks than other congressional activities – this was a strictly bipartisan process.
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This is a small price to pay for the good that earmarks do -greasing the wheels for larger, more important bills to pass.
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The pork-free claim can also be challenged based on the inclusion of projects that have appeared in past appropriations bills as earmarks.
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The 2016 pork is the latest addition to the total of 110,85033 earmarks since CAGW released the first "Congressional Pig Book" in 1991.
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Bringing back earmarks could be as simple as lifting the Republican Conference or, if the Democrats win the House, changing their Caucus rule.
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They argue that bringing back earmarks could help the legislative process, make it easier to pass bills and basically make Congress function better.
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In public finance, earmarks are items in an appropriations bill that direct funds to a specific recipient, circumventing competitive, merit-based allocation processes.
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Lawmakers have complained for years that without earmarks, they have no reliable way of funding vital constituent interests, from roads to sewer systems.
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Congressional sponsors of legislative earmarks had to be identified, in addition to the amount they had requested and for what purpose or entity.
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Republicans banned earmarks after taking the House majority in 2011, a move that's made it exceedingly difficult to pass the annual appropriations bills.
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With Mr. Trump in the White House, there will be a fresh test of the appropriations process, including a new debate on earmarks.
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"Maybe all of you should start thinking about going back to a form of earmarks," Trump said, as members around the table laughed.
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The Rules Committee hearing comes as part of discussions to reinstate earmarks after House Republicans came close to reviving them in late 2016.
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Supporters of the change argued that ban on earmarks went too far because they can't direct funding to much-needed projects in their districts.
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Washington (CNN)Earmarks, the simultaneously hated and beloved DC tool that lets lawmakers direct money to specific programs and projects, may be coming back.
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The administration also has an advantage in allocating spending to specific areas of the country, since Congress' moratorium on earmarks tied its own hands.
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The moniker "earmarks" denotes a practice where House leaders buy members' votes by guaranteeing funding for pet projects via must-pass government funding bills.
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Already, conservatives are bashing any discussion related to returning to earmarks, which some proponents believe could help grease the wheels in a jammed Capitol.
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The VR/AR market is predicted to grow into a $150 billion industry by 2020, and has all the earmarks of a hot market.
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A group of GOP senators are urging President Trump to veto any bill that includes earmarks as House Republicans eye softening the current ban.
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Spotify buys Gimlet and Anchor in podcast push, earmarks $23M for more deals Spotify is going after podcasts in a major way in 2150.
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Many blamed our budget woes on earmarks in appropriations bills when in reality they only rarely represented even 85033 percent of total budget outlays.
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Still, the move would be a heavy political lift, especially for Republicans, given that critics have long decried earmarks as wasteful "pork barrel" spending.
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That could put pressure on the GOP, which implemented an internal conferencewide ban on earmarks in 2011, to once again participate in the process.
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The biggest opponents of earmarks often decried them as wasteful and emblematic of a Washington full of profligate and irresponsible spenders of taxpayer money.
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Some lawmakers and conservative media platforms will always hate earmarks, and many national publications will give negative coverage to the earmark process by default.
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Lawmakers who accept bribes should be prosecuted, and those earmarks should be stripped out of legislation, which is exactly what happened to Rep. Cunningham.
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In other words, the average dollar amount for the Corps earmarks in fiscal 2016 was $36.6 million compared to $1.1 billion in fiscal 21625.
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"It's in Congress's purview to deal with earmarks; They are still done, they are just done in the executive branch," the freshman appropriator said.
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"Earmarks have become a symbol of a Congress that has broken faith with the people," then-House Speaker John Boehner said at the time.
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The case to bring back earmarks has been made by numerous political scientists and journalists (including at Vox, by now-NBC reporter Jonathan Allen).
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The Liberal government's budget for 2017, tabled in Parliament on Wednesday, earmarks $2 billion in spending to create a Disaster Mitigation and Adaptation Fund.
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Some argue that earmarks help garner bipartisan support for bills by giving individual members of the minority party stronger reasons to support spending legislation.
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Restoring balance back to the legislative branch is critical, but that cannot come from returning to an opaque and publicly derided process like earmarks.
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Previously, individual members of Congress sought tariff relief on behalf of companies, which conservatives and good government groups decried as an abuse of earmarks.
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Line-item expenditures — also known as earmarks — were banned after a series of spending scandals that even led to jail time for one member.
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"Maybe all of you should start thinking about going back to a form of earmarks," Trump said, leading many of the lawmakers to laugh.
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Trump said the "levels of hatred" among Republicans and Democrats are "out of control" and that earmarks could help solve it: http://bit.ly/2CM8iUl.
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Lawmakers revamped the process of choosing what products would receive the tariff treatment to avoid any conflicts with a congressional rule that prohibits earmarks.
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Politics and the Republican Party have changed in ways that made earmarks — and the more transactional approach to politics they were part of — useless.
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Moreover, it's not as if the proliferation of earmarks from the mid-'90s to the late 2000s facilitated a great era of congressional dealmaking.
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A kafkaesque creation, the sculpture earmarks the ceaseless verticality of Constantin Brancusi's "Endless Column" (1918) through its blunt rendition of America's faulty ladder of success.
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Steve King (R-Iowa), who in the past has authored legislation to restore earmarks to ensure Congress is fully exercising the power of the purse.
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While the bill did not necessarily include what we would normally call earmarks, spending directed at individual congressional districts, it passed overwhelmingly with bipartisan support.
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The case of the omnibus bill illuminates the fault lines of the debate over congressional earmarks, which are back in the news again this year.
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Despite perceptions that the party leaders had a bucket of earmarks to dole out as rewards, our research says this is largely not the case.
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To make the earmarks pill easier to swallow, some proponents have suggested ways to make the system more transparent and curb its potential for abuse.
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The Senate cleared a long-delayed measure on Tuesday that will provide tariff relief for U.S. manufacturers while complying with the congressional ban on earmarks.
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"If Republicans bring back earmarks, then it virtually guarantees that they will lose the House," Club for Growth President David McIntosh said in a statement.
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In 2011 when earmarks were at their peak, the total cost of every earmark combined was less than half a percent of the federal budget.
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Lifting the current moratorium on earmarks would only accelerate the erosion of public trust in Congress and send taxpayer dollars to unnecessary pork-barrel projects.
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"Based on what I'm hearing, on the other side, they too believe it was a mistake to discontinue earmarks," he said of his GOP colleagues.
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But after House Republicans adopted a ban on earmarks in 2010, some lawmakers worried that the process could be seen as doling out special favors.
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Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), a fellow Northern Virginia lawmaker, explained that the funds for the task force dried up when the House GOP eliminated earmarks.
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The bipartisan answer needs to be regionally fair and at the same time avoid a political process in Washington that recreates earmarks under another name.
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MCC is free from U.S. government earmarks and initiatives, which makes it easier to align with country priorities to tackle major constraints to economic growth.
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But Golden State is showing all the earmarks of being the team they've been, even though the regular season maybe didn't reveal it as much.
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"My district is not in favor of earmarks as a way to encourage voting with the establish in Washington, DC," House Freedom Caucus Chair Rep.
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The modern earmarking process began in the mid-220006s, when the "father of earmarks," Gerald Cassidy, procured his first pork-barrel project for a client.
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Regular order will also show voters in a critical election year that Republicans are a serious reform party that is capable of governing without earmarks.
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The House on Wednesday easily passed legislation to help businesses seeking tariff relief, with the measure designed to comply with the congressional ban on earmarks.
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Mario Diaz-Balart found out that President Donald Trump had endorsed earmarks on national television, the 22011-year House veteran fist-pumped into the air.
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Congress resisted using earmarks routinely for decades, but they became commonplace in the 1990s and helped define Washington's image as a "swamp" of special interests.
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"I was totally in support of a temporary moratorium on earmarks because it was so badly abused," the Texas Republican said on Fox Business Network.
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Steny Hoyer, the number two House Democrat, embraced the possible return of earmarks, agreeing with the sentiment that Congress should have all the spending authority.
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Roskam joins lobbying firm K Street giants scoop up coveted ex-lawmakers MORE (R-Texas), who testified before the Rules Committee in support of earmarks.
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One argument that proponents of restoring earmarks make is that the ban has ceded too much of Congress's Article I power to the executive branch.
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He came to Congress in 2001 and earned a reputation as a scourge against federal spending and earmarks and as a champion of tax cuts.
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Lazarus and McKay also find in previous research that clients that hired revolving door lobbyists were more likely to get earmarks than those that didn't.
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Earmarks grew starting in 1995, and their use peaked in 2005, just as Republican members needed protection from the growing unpopularity of George W. Bush.
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But in the meantime, House Democrats should abandon their quest to reinstall earmarks, both for their political future's sake and for the sake of the taxpayers.
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And without the ability to hand out legislative goodies such as earmarks (money for projects in districts), the modern Speaker is simply playing a weaker hand.
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"Bringing back earmarks is the antithesis of draining the swamp," said David McIntosh, the president of Club for Growth, which is close to the White House.
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Single appropriations bills are usually debated in the open, amended, do not contain policy riders or earmarks, and represent a compromise of the House and Senate.
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But under the new measures, businesses would instead petition the International Trade Commission (ITC) as a way to align the process the House's ban on earmarks.
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It has been a long time since earmarks have been around, and many of the current and new members of Congress have never requested one before.
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Since a 6900 soft ban on earmarks, members of Congress switched from direct budget requests to using the federal bureaucracy to steer money to their districts.
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In the past, however, members have voted for excessively expensive legislation because they have received a few earmarks, which means the moratorium has helped restrain spending.
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"Earmarks encourage the worst behavior because they tempt people in Congress to steal taxpayer money to benefit big contributors or grease their own reelection," Budd said.
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Overall, the proposal earmarks $85033 billion in funding across the government to boost network defenses, a 35 percent increase over last year's allotment of $14 billion.
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Should earmarks return, Hudak also predicted the current media landscape would likely play an important role in keeping those measures in check, in an investigative capacity.
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Our victory that day came when Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, then the minority leader, announced that Republicans would pass a moratorium on pork-barrel earmarks.
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Mr. de Blasio, for the record, is not yet one of those candidates, despite holding an event that bore all the earmarks of a campaign event.
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We created databases for all earmarks in all appropriations bills from 2003 until the earmark moratorium in 2010, even before Congress created a system of disclosure.
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House Democrats first sought to overhaul earmarks in 2006, instituting a one-year moratorium in 2007, which was followed by a GOP-led ban in 2011.
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Budget busting government bloat buoyed by stealth earmarks, like the USDA catfish program, is the thing many conservative lawmakers campaigned on getting rid of in Washington.
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And also remember that House Republicans did away with earmarks after re-taking the majority in 2010 -- largely at the behest of incoming Speaker John Boehner.
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Earmarks have long been targeted as examples of unnecessary spending, historically used by lawmakers to bring government money back to specific projects in their home states.
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Washington (CNN)The House of Representatives kicks off two days of hearings Wednesday on whether to bring back so-called earmarks following a seven-year moratorium.
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It's no accident that some recent convictions of sitting U.S. congressmen have involved earmarks, as did one of the most notorious political scandals in recent memory.
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But the most ideologically committed Republicans abhorred the practice, considering it a symbol of reckless spending even though earmarks had no real impact on total spending.
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The request comes as House Republicans are debating reviving earmarks -- a practice that Republicans banned in 2011, but has won favor among some in the House. Sens.
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The President's latest budget proposal earmarks $22015 billion for the wall, a first installment that Trump has said will get things going before Mexico eventually chips in.
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Sessions said that he and House Speaker Paul Ryan discussed earmarks with Republicans Tuesday morning at their weekly meeting and will take up the issue again Thursday.
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"If Republicans bring back earmarks, then it virtually guarantees that they will lose the House," said conservative group Club for Growth president David McIntosh in a statement.
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These are some of the most notable movies that the Academy ignored this year for top honors, even though they all have the earmarks of prestige work.
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Hoyer says earmarks or congressionally directed spending should be allowed, albeit with reforms to make it tougher to secure shady deals for lobbyists or lawmakers' personal gain.
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But one thing to be noticed is that this money is earmarks of Boeing, it is not related to the ongoing lawsuit filed by the victims' families.
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The Mumbai Development Plan for the period through 2034 earmarks nearly 19303,355 hectares (13 sq miles) for 1 million units of social housing, as well as tourism.
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The alternative, taking over the Appropriations Committee, is not as enticing as it used to be given today's fierce battles over spending and the abolishment of earmarks.
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It's the worst kept secret in Washington that most members of Congress love earmarks -- which enable members to direct federal spending to projects in their home districts.
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Congressional pork, also known as earmarks, is money lawmakers pile on to already moving legislation for special projects in their districts, usually in exchange for a vote.
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That occurred one year after the infamous $22019 million "bridge to nowhere" in Alaska was included among the $24.8 billion in earmarks in the 2005 highway bill.
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Congress years ago eliminated funding for these types of pet projects, known as earmarks, after they became derided as government boondoggles, largess and a pathway to corruption.
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"It might help a return to regular order in appropriations if they can put earmarks in there," said Diana Evans, a political science professor at Trinity College.
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Young, once investigated by the FBI over corruption allegations, held a knife to former Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) during a dispute over spending earmarks years ago.
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In 2011, then-President Obama vowed to veto any spending bill that included earmarks, which have often been seen as leading to wasteful spending on pet projects.
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If congressionally directed spending, also known as earmarks, is restored it makes most sense to do so as part of comprehensive reform of our dysfunctional budget process.
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Even though some Democrats support reviving earmarks, it's likely they will force Republicans to take ownership of the issue and carry any resolution on the House floor.
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Flake said earmarks are not only wasteful but also corrupt and that he hopes to end the system with the introduction of this bipartisan Earmark Elimination Act.
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"I think that when you're talking about draining the swamp, it's very difficult in the same mouthful to suggest that we're going to reinstitute earmarks," Meadows said.
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But even some Freedom Caucus members sound open to a return to earmarks ahead of House Rules Committee hearings next week on whether to revive the practice.
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"Bringing back earmarks would be costly both to taxpayers' wallets and Republicans' chances of holding a majority in the House," Club for Growth President David McIntosh said.
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Duke Cunningham receiving $2.4 million in bribes in return for directing earmarks and being sentenced to 8 years in prison, to help get the ban in place.
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But the Appropriations panel has lost some of its political might in recent years, after the ban of earmarks and the collapse of the annual appropriations process.
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Heller stumbles on earmarks Heller claimed in the debate that he never supported earmarks, the congressionally directed spending provisions that former Senate Majority Leader Harry ReidHarry Mason Reid2020 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care Reid says he wishes Franken would run for Senate again Panel: How Biden's gaffes could cost him against Trump MORE (D-Nev.) once used to steer tens of millions of dollars to Nevada.
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The other is that Siri shows the polish of six-plus years of development and AI growth, while Bixby has all the earmarks of still-under-construction project.
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"We respectfully urge you to make it clear that you will veto any bill Congress sends to you containing earmarks within the legislative text or the accompanying report."
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House Republicans are re-opening their debate on earmarks, six years after they banned the practice that became the target of ire among conservatives and tea party groups.
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President Bush oversaw increased non-defense discretionary spending, a bailout of the financial industry, ramped up pork barrel spending and earmarks, and the creation of a new entitlement.
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Democratic leaders could also face some blowback, especially since the party is running on an anti-corruption platform this fall, with earmarks being synonymous with the Washington swamp.
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Senate and House lawmakers from both parties predict there will be a serious push to bring back earmarks once the government shutdown is finally over — with one exception.
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For the fourth time since Congress enacted an earmark moratorium that began in fiscal year 6900, Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) has unearthed earmarks in the appropriations bills.
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For instance, legislators added 15 earmarks costing $549.6 million for the fiscal 2016 Army Corps of Engineers in the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act.
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Earmarks earned a messy reputation in years past, but some congressional scholars believe the practice, within accepted parameters, could serve as useful lubricant for compromise on Capitol Hill.
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"The chronology of budget commitments clearly demonstrates that the earmarks are being used as bargaining chips," said Gil Castello Branco, who leads the government watchdog group Contas Abertas.
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A large factor, several say, is the demise of earmarks, the power to steer money to lawmakers' pet projects in order to persuade them to take tough votes.
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"We're not going to have a majority if we bring back earmarks," said a top aide to a freshman Democrat who flipped a GOP-held seat in 2018.
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A conservative who made his name challenging earmarks in the House, Flake then began challenging Trump on issues like free trade -- which the Republican Party has traditionally supported.
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Last week, No Labels released a report of "bold ideas to rebuild our Democracy," including proposals for allowing the return of earmarks and term-limiting Supreme Court justices.
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As he did in an earlier statement, Ryan praised Flake, calling him a "good friend" who had led the crusade against earmarks when he served in the House.
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As Congress finally earmarks funding for public health initiatives, doctors, prosecutors, police, and local lawmakers are fighting to slow the death toll in their communities—with wildly different strategies.
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He even gave a full-throated endorsement of earmarks, money that lawmakers pile on to already moving legislation for special projects in their districts, a practice conservative lawmakers banned.
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House Republicans' push to bring back earmarks this year faces a much tougher road after the GOP's disastrous and unsuccessful effort this week to weaken a congressional ethics watchdog.
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HOUSE PASSES TARIFF RELIEF: The House on Wednesday easily passed legislation to help businesses seeking tariff relief, with a measure designed to comply with the congressional ban on earmarks.
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Neal's partial to earmarks, is a prolific fundraiser for Democrats and is often seen as someone who can work closely with members on the other side of the aisle.
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In other words, 2628 appropriators (28500 in the House and 6900 in the Senate), who constituted 2628 percent of the entire Congress, purloined more than half of the earmarks.
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Opponents of earmarks used this as an example of the problems with the practice by claiming the bridge was being built for the fifty people living on Gravina Island.
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"If Republicans bring back earmarks, then it virtually guarantees that they will lose the House," David McIntosh, president of the conservative group Club for Growth, said in a statement.
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Based on a price of 560 dollars per tonne of gas, the draft budget earmarks 18 billion dirhams to subsidies, up 13 billion dirhams from this year, he said.
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And Trump's call for the return of earmarks -- to allow party leaders to woo members for legislation with goodies for their districts -- directly contradicts his "drain the swamp" philosophy.
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Those sentiments were echoed by Senator Jeff Flake, who is not seeking re-election but warned that Republicans were putting themselves at serious political risk if they embraced earmarks.
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The male-fantasy earmarks of "Lost in Florence," a guy-perspective romance written and directed by Evan Oppenheimer, are hard to ignore, but it's still a reasonably pleasant film.
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Boehner said that Young once pinned him against a wall in the House during an argument over earmarks, and that Young held a 10-inch knife to Boehner's throat.
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Louie Gohmert, a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, said Wednesday the ban on earmarks gives too much power to the executive branch over how to spend money.
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Due to the congressional ban on "earmarks," we have no ability to compel the Army Corps to complete projects for which the executive branch does not specifically request funding.
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Instead, the bill was loaded up with earmarks and pork barrel spending, so much so that only around half of the bill ended up actually being for Sandy relief.
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" Lee said Congress is "dysfunctional" today, noting that earmarks "probably would make it easier for party leaders to buy the votes they need to pass the bills they write.
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"Infrastructure," meanwhile, is a sufficiently vague category that even without the dream earmarks you can shape the contours of the spending to fit the priorities of fence-sitting legislators.
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When I came to Congress in 2017, I joined a few of my colleagues and signed a pledge by the Citizens Against Government Waste to support a ban on earmarks.
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Spotify buys Gimlet and Anchor in podcast push, earmarks $500M for more deals After a lengthy beta period, Spotify only opened its podcast submission program to all-comers last October.
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And because earmarks are no longer politically correct in the Republican-led Congress, the ability of the Appropriations Committee to deliver goodies to colleagues and their constituents has largely disappeared.
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The "Bridge to Nowhere" and a few other bad apples may have gotten all the press, but earmarks were designed to be tied to constituency concerns and make voters happy.
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Far from being a normal exercise of Congress' "power of the purse," ad-hoc earmarks to local interests were long considered an unwarranted expansion of the legislative prerogative for Appropriations.
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Earmarks are a lazy, unfair and corrupt way to circumvent that process, and they have been roundly excoriated by the conservative movement upon which Republicans depend for their political lives.
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Especially with talk of earmarks coming back, these committees are where Democratic lawmakers will most be able to get things done that they can then brag about to their constituents.
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This dark energy bears all the earmarks of a fudge factor, called the cosmological constant, that Einstein inserted into his equations a century ago, and later rejected as a blunder.
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Lobbyists and lawmakers say earmarks also help facilitate dealmaking by allowing members to get something for their districts in a piece of legislation with provisions they might not otherwise support.
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House Democrats met on Tuesday to discuss the possibility of restoring the use of earmarks for appropriations bills, potentially allowing members to secure funding for specific projects in their districts.
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The brief history: In 2011, then-President Obama vowed to veto any spending bill that included earmarks, which have often been seen as leading to wasteful spending on pet projects.
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Known by their supporters as the "grease" that made Washington's wheels turn, earmarks were funds allocated for lawmakers' pet projects that helped secure votes needed to get broader legislation passed.
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With this norm, politicians can effectively ignore many of their constituents without putting re-election at risk, and many have rejected the standard practices of the recent past — most notably earmarks.
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Transactional politics of this kind then helped smooth the wheels in Congress, as leaders handed out earmarks, or federal funding specifically designated for projects in the district, in exchange for cooperation.
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While we will surely hear the wailing and gnashing of teeth from some party extremists, it has become pretty clear that a majority of both conferences would like to restore earmarks.
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Both in the House and the Senate, Mr. Flake has challenged his leadership, and in some cases has won, notably on his crusade against the home-state projects known as earmarks.
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Earmarks sound like a quick fix, but bringing them back would relaunch a pay-to-play system that picks winners and losers based on political muscle rather than on project merit.
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While a member of the House of Representatives for 12 years, Mr. Flake staked his reputation on being a fiscally responsible conservative, voting against spending bills and waging fights over earmarks.
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They lack legislative earmarks to hand out, or withhold, and their ability to raise large sums of money matters less in an era in which liberal fund-raising is moving online.
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Documents obtained by Bloomberg show the proposed budget earmarks $2628 million for fiscal 28503, $22019 billion in 2022, $1.9 billion in 2023, $3.67 billion in 2024 and $3.68 billion in 85033.
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And House GOP leaders recently moved to restart a debate on earmarks that has been put on hold since fall 2016 in the wake of Trump's "drain the swamp" electoral victory.
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"Maybe all of you should start thinking about going back to a form of earmarks," Trump told lawmakers who were gathered at the White House for a meeting about immigration reform.
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While he encouraged lawmakers to consider returning to earmarks, he also argued they'll need "better controls" in allocating funds, saying "it got a little bit out of hand" in the past.
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In private discussions with people close to Planned Parenthood, White House officials have suggested that there could even be an increase in federal earmarks if the work related to abortion ends.
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Congress will be tasked with channeling the White House principles and members' demands – without earmarks – into fully baked legislative text, all before the midterm election season dries up the legislative appetite.
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Lawmakers from both parties expressed support on Wednesday for reversing the House's ban on earmarks, despite skepticism from key conservatives who originally pushed to end the practice nearly a decade ago.
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As my colleague Mark Schmitt has written: Put simply, rank-and-file members of Congress, especially Republicans, don't want earmarks, and they can't be bought off with something they don't want.
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Congress should reclaim its role in setting spending priorities, but it should require earmarks to be transparent and to be a part of the base funding bill in the House or Senate.
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The idea of bringing back earmarks is likely to gain steam next Congress if Democrats are in control, which would force the GOP to make a decision on the idea as well.
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For decades, I have fought the often lonely battle against earmarks, and I'm proud to join my colleagues today to introduce legislation that would make permanent the ban on this corrupting practice.
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As chair of the conservative Republican Study Committee, he pushed for deeper spending cuts, was an early supporter of getting rid of so-called "earmarks" and at times criticized fellow GOP members.
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On December 11, incoming Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said that some form of earmarks are coming back, and that he expected bipartisan support in the House and Senate to bring them back.
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But the elimination of earmarks — pet spending projects — and the collapse of any kind of predictable spending process have deprived lawmakers of the traditional opportunities to steer federal money to their states.
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She also demonstrated how earmarks persist despite efforts to eliminate them: the riders she is seeking to include in the pending omnibus appropriations bill nominally change policy rather than setting aside funding.
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Trump's improvised tribute to earmarks Tuesday lasted just two minutes after an unrelated White House meeting, but the political effects could be far-reaching as Congress mulls whether to allow a revival.
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Speaker Ryan understood the effort to restore earmarks on the heels of electing a President who promised to "drain the swamp" could be easily misinterpreted as turning back the clock on reform.
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It's unclear whether changes to earmarks could happen this year or at the start of the next Congress in January 2019, when the House typically votes on rules for the new session.
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Washington (CNN)House Speaker Paul Ryan successfully lobbied his Republican colleagues Wednesday to postpone a vote on a proposal to bring back earmarks, billions of dollars for pet projects tucked into spending bills.
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Larson said he and many other Democrats are ready to help Republicans revive earmarks, but he said they've been stood up numerous times by Republicans unable to win support in their own ranks.
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House Democrats on Friday suspended their plan to resurrect a reformed system of earmarks, but again left the door open for a return to the spending practice notorious for greasing the legislative skids.
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"I and You," about two teenagers bonding over their Walt Whitman homework, has some of the earmarks of what makes an attractive, easily producible property these days: just two characters, a single set.
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Tom Cole (R-Okla.), a senior member of the House Appropriations Committee, said he expects members to be just as supportive of overturning the earmarks ban in public as they were in private.
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The authors hosted an event Wednesday -- complete with a live pig named Faye -- to advocate for cutting and preventing the spread of earmarks, and the event attracted several high-profile Republican lawmakers: Sens.
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Americans don't want another massive spending bill nobody will read, will be filled with earmarks, and passed in mere days with little or no time for the public to see what it contains.
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He often said that he would never be named "Miss Congeniality" by his fellow senators, due in large part to his longstanding and ongoing crusade to expose and eliminate wasteful spending, particularly earmarks.
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They snickered as he and other perceived gadflies on the right fringe pressed for a ban on earmarks, pet projects that greased the congressional skids and were loved by members of both parties.
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"Our bill creates a new process for consideration of manufacturing tax cuts that will lower costs and create more jobs at home while fully complying with our strong ban against earmarks," Reichert said.
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For junior lawmakers and those in the minority, earmarks can give them accomplishments to take back home, which is in the interest of leadership for both parties, regardless of who holds the gavel.
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The Miscellaneous Tariff Bill (MTB) measure, which cleared the Senate on May 85033, was delayed for several years as lawmakers worked to craft legislation that would comply with the congressional ban on earmarks.
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One of them earmarks millions of dollars in funds to combat religious persecution worldwide for the purpose of aiding victims and helping them return to their homes, like the displaced Christians in Iraq.
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If polarization were simply a matter of parties negotiating on behalf of competing economic interest groups and allocating federal dollars, it follows that there are deals to be made (and plenty of earmarks!).
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SENATE SENDS TARIFF RELIEF BILL TO WHITE HOUSE: The Senate cleared a long-delayed measure on Tuesday that will provide tariff relief for U.S. manufacturers while complying with the congressional ban on earmarks.
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Trump's proposed budget strips away not just earmarks but virtually all the underlying programs, such as Community Development Block Grants, that allowed members of Congress to direct funds to local governments and nonprofits.
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A group of Republican senators wrote to President Donald Trump in March asking him to promise to veto any effort to revive earmarks, and the effort to undo the earmark ban never fully developed.
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Looking at the electoral returns to earmarks in the Senate, we found liberals and moderates as well as those who were a poor ideological match for their state, were rewarded more at the polls.
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Instead, the House Rules Committee held hearings on the topic earlier this year, when a number of lawmakers from both parties testified in support of earmarks and discussed how the system could be reformed.
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More from Capitol Hill … Momentum for earmarks grows with Dem majority (The Hill) … The House passed legislation supporting U.S. support for NATO amid reports Trump wants to pull out of the alliance (The Hill).
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Two Republican and two Democratic lawmakers are offering legislation to permanently ban the use of earmarks, pushing back on others in Congress who would like to see a return of the direct spending items.
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Hudak had other ideas to address ethics in the earmarks process: nonpartisan or bipartisan panels that addressed public earmark demands and more strenuous disclosure requirements to ensure lawmakers weren't personally profiting from their demands.
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A bunch of Yang's proposals fall into the category of "more popular among liberal political bloggers than most politicians," like reviving earmarks to make bills easier to pass, or automatic filing of income taxes.
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Members from both parties have long stressed that reinstating earmarks doesn't have to mean a return to wasteful and highly criticized pork-barrel spending in which federal funds flow to thousands of niche projects.
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Just as traditional earmarks seek to exempt favored projects from the funding competitions that apply to everyone else, Murkowski's riders make no pretense of setting good public policy for the nation as a whole.
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This midterm election has all the earmarks, again, of one of those moments in this nation's history where it can choose to live in to its greatness or descend into mediocrity and ongoing strife.
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It was the GOP that was responsible for the ban on earmarks that originated in the House but obviously ensnared the Senate because of the need for appropriations to be approved by both chambers.
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Instead of reopening the floodgates for earmarks, Congress should focus on returning to regular order, restoring oversight and accountability to the appropriations process and squelching the epidemic of zombie appropriations that plague federal spending.
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When Gingrich's Republicans unseated those and other Democrats in 803, the new speaker encouraged the use of earmarks — spending tagged by Congress for specific projects — to help them solidify their position in vulnerable districts.
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But CharityScience earmarks all of its affiliate earnings for the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative, a fantastic charity that works with sub-Saharan African governments to create or scale deworming programs, which assist children with parasitic infections.
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The package includes 7.5 trillion yen in spending by the national and local governments, and earmarks 6 trillion yen from the Fiscal Investment and Loan Program, which is not included in the government's general budget.
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They believe Obamacare earmarks too many benefits insurers need to include and sets too high a standard for the percentage of average health costs that needs to be covered (a number known as "actuarial value").
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Here's the policy backstory: Title I of ESSA earmarks $16 billion for schools that serve low-income students, and stipulates that the money be spent in addition to, not instead of, state and local dollars.
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Rather than trading a few million dollars in earmarks for votes in favor of hundreds of billions of dollars in spending bills, the earmark moratorium appears to be restraining the size of the appropriations bills.
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The argument usually boils down two simple points: John Hudak, a political scientist with the Brookings Institution who wrote a book on "pork," argues that "banning" earmarks only shifts more power to the executive branch.
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In his early years in Congress, he developed a reputation as a budget hawk who challenged party leaders to get rid of so-called earmarks, in which federal money is steered to lawmakers' pet projects.
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Mr. McCain was a seasoned senator who had made a trademark of his opposition to spending earmarks and what he called "pork" — line items lawmakers would insert in spending bills to fund strictly parochial projects.
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The $25 million that TN Together earmarks for treatment, for example, will treat 6,1003 to 10,000 addicted Tennesseans, according to state estimates, while the number of Tennesseans who actually abused opioids in 2016 was 317,647.
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A Democratic aide, insisting on anonymity to describe internal discussions, said that party leaders planned to revisit the discussion of earmarks next year, given the near-unanimous support for it among their members in Congress.
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Having already won the mother of all earmarks — a provision in the tax bill authorizing drilling on the sensitive coastal plain of the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge – Murkowski can hardly claim to have been neglected.
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The Senate GOP on Thursday behind closed doors added a permanent ban on earmarked spending to their conference rules, a move that comes as some buzz had built around an eventual return of earmarks. Sen.
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The reformed process he's pushing, he added, would not look like the "earmarks" of the past that sparked public backlash, when thousands of projects were inserted into funding bills for items that many considered wasteful.
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Memorable examples of the use of earmarks were a "bridge to nowhere" in Alaska and the conviction of Republican Congressman Duke Cunningham of California for taking millions of dollars in bribes linked to special projects.
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Washington (CNN)When President Donald Trump stoked the idea of lifting the ban on earmarks, he ignited debate over an old congressional tactic loathed by the public and killed seven years ago by House Republicans.
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Claire McCaskill of Missouri introduced a bipartisan bill Wednesday to permanently eliminate earmarks, a system of spending in Congress that allows funds for a specific purpose to be drawn into a larger federal spending bill.
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Each year, he and his wife allocate about $15,000 to $25,000 to one of these investments, which is about 25 percent to 30 percent of the money that the family earmarks annually for investing opportunities.
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In 1997 they passed a balanced budget for the first time in decades, and a rising chorus within the majority wanted to end earmarks, though it would take another 85033 years to cancel the practice.
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In the latter case, we talk about current deficits, but those deficits are just earmarks for the future taxes that must be imposed to pay down the national debt incurred to fund the earlier spending.
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While impeachment, Iowa and the State of the Union dominate headlines, House Democrat leaders are quietly trying to overturn the single biggest victory for the "Drain the Swamp" campaign in the last decade – the earmarks ban.
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They do not care that Mr Flake spent years in Congress opposing abortion, supporting gun rights and voting for lower taxes, enraging party leaders by campaigning against "earmarks" that directed pork-barrel dollars to favoured districts.
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Some critics have argued that the removal earmarks has led to some of the gridlock in Washington over the past seven years, because it removed a legislative tool that could help deals get done in Congress.
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Although the culprit hasn't been identified—a suicide bomber is suspected—the attack does have the earmarks of earlier ones in Boston (the bomb may have contained nails) and Paris (because it occurred at a concert).
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The earmarks in the appropriations bills enacted since the initiation of the moratorium raise disturbing questions for the future, particularly because representatives and senators from both sides of the aisle continue to clamor for their revival.
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In 213, she did a brief stint with a defense contracting firm whose founder, Mitchell Wade, pleaded guilty a year later to bribing a congressman with more than $1 million in return for favors and earmarks.
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The Appropriations chairmanship is not as powerful as it once was, in part due to the GOP's ban on earmarks, but it still gives a lawmaker the ability to direct billions of dollars in government spending.
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This investment into educational content, which was announced on Monday as part of the YouTube Learning initiative introduced in July 2017, earmarks $20 million to fund the videos and expands support for these kinds of video creators.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump unexpectedly suggested on Tuesday that bringing back congressional "earmarks," spending habits that were banished six years ago from the federal budget process, might help an often deadlocked U.S. Congress get things done.
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Middle-class workers, long the backbone of our aspirational society, are not simply a special interest group whose needs can be met with set asides and quotas, tax breaks, earmarks, or other special treatment from the government.
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Miranda immediately recognized a fellow hip-hop artist in Hamilton, in that the founder had all the earmarks of a Tupac or a Biggie Smalls: innate intellect, brashness, unrelenting ambition, and a grand tendency to start drama.
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Italy's 2017 budget earmarks more than 6 billion euros, or 0.4 percent of its gross domestic product, in additional spending on migrants and to cover reconstruction costs after major earthquakes that have rocked the country this year.
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The book is the latest chapter in a long-simmering feud between Trump and Flake, once an anti-earmarks face of the GOP's last revolution who has now become a target of the party's latest hostile takeover.
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"This ends a discussion of nearly 40 years with opt-ins, opt-outs, rebates, earmarks, you name it," Verhofstadt, leader of the centrist liberals, said, referring to special conditions that Britain has secured during its EU membership.
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John Culberson (R-Texas), Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) and Tom Rooney (R-Fla.) are among the lawmakers who have called on Congress to revisit the issue of earmarks, which were prohibited under House rules when former Rep.
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Representative Nita M. Lowey, Democrat of New York and chairwoman of the House Appropriations Committee, embarked on a listening tour among her colleagues about rebranding earmarks as "community project funding" and implementing more guardrails to avoid abuse.
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Mr. Ryan had already headed off an earlier rules change that was deemed potentially embarrassing: a proposal to let lawmakers resume funding of pet projects through designated "earmarks" as long as the money went to public entities.
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According to one political science measure derived from analysis of roll-call votes, he is one of the three or four most conservative members of the Senate — and he is a well-known crusader against legislative earmarks.
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The book features members of Congress from both parties whom the authors say are responsible for the most spending through earmarks -- appendages to appropriations bills that benefit local projects and win favor at home -- also known as pork.
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An increase in partisan polarization, the rising influence of ideology-driven donors, a mass media campaign to stigmatize earmarks, and a growing preference for leadership-driven dealmaking have all led to a systematic decline of Christmas tree legislation.
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In each of the years following the establishment of the moratorium, there have been fewer earmarks than in the peak years, but far more money was spent on average for each earmark and no detailed description was provided.
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For decades, earmarks were used as deal sweeteners: Lawmakers would take difficult votes with their party but be able to go home to constituents with funding for a much-needed bridge, dam, post office, or another federal project.
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Then, this week, after reports of cascading rush-hour delays on the 211 and 230 lines in Manhattan that had all the same earmarks, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority declared that a serial scofflaw was loose on the subway.
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In the House, he was among the leaders of the effort to ban earmarks — spending sought by lawmakers for their home districts, popular at the time — and he was a strong advocate for cutting government spending over all.
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"September has the earmarks of a crazy month thanks to Washington, the ECB, and the fact that company management gets back from vacation and thinks about Q3 and Q4 estimates," according to Steven DeSanctis, equity strategist at Jefferies.
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Mike Simpson, a senior member of the Appropriations Committee, told CNN he supported reinstating earmarks but told reporters it would have looked bad for House Republicans to make the change as one of the first moves after the election.
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During the briefing, Sanders stressed that Trump brought earmarks up as a solution to avoid the "fighting" in Congress and encourage more "fixing," and added that it would need to be reinstated in a more careful manner with controls.
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Campaign contributions drive spending on earmarks and other wasteful programs — bridges to nowhere, contracts for equipment the military does not need, solar energy companies that go bankrupt on the government's dime and for-profit educational institutions that don't educate.
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He'd get members of Congress to get earmarks and other legislative items for his clients and would wink and nod (or explicitly promise) members of Congress a cushy, high-paying job at a lobbying firm if they did it.
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Jaresko said it was safe to say approximately $35 billion to $45 billion has been appropriated for relief and rebuilding, including earmarks from the U.S. Congress and money from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which is not fixed.
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Despite the fact that all spending is supposed to be controlled by the legislative branch, conservatives successfully imposed upon congressional leaders a prohibition of earmarks, giving President Obama vast power to spend as he sees fit, without congressional input.
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Pete Sessions (R-Texas), the chairman of the House Rules Committee, told reporters that he would look at options for bringing back earmarks in some form and potentially presenting options to the caucus by mid-28503, according to CNN.
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The origin and study of pork-barrel spending, or earmarks, as well as the nature and course of this malady, merits a fresh examination before the release of Citizens Against Government Waste's annual Congressional Pig Book on July 19.
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But with earmarks banned -- making it nearly impossible to bring home pet projects or use the promise of them as leverage in negotiations -- and spending bills mired in the legislative mud, the committee has lost some of its luster.
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House Republicans, after considering bringing back earmarks earlier this year, put a stop to the conversation at the behest of House Speaker Paul Ryan, who successfully lobbied his Republican colleagues to postpone a vote to bring back the measures.
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The general election "has all the earmarks of being even more negative than 2012, [and] by far more negative than 2008," Balz told David Axelrod on "The Axe Files" podcast, produced by CNN and the University of Chicago Institute of Politics.
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Trump also suggested in the meeting that members of both parties should look at bringing earmarks back to Congress — the pet-project spending long considered the swampiest of Washington creations, and banned by Republicans in 2011 under then-speaker John Boehner.
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The agreement calls for about $1.7 million to paid to drivers and earmarks about $2.9 million in PAGA penalties for California's Labor and Workforce Development Agency, with the rest of the settlement sum going toward attorney fees and administration costs.
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Once, not long ago, when it came to negotiating spending bills, lawmakers would start lining up around Appropriations Committee members — dubbed "cardinals" — on the House and Senate floor to win cash carveouts for special projects in their districts, called earmarks.
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Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), the ranking member on the House Rules Committee who's been supportive of earmarks, is taking submissions from Democratic lawmakers until Friday, but a final package isn't expected to emerge before the midterm elections on Nov. 6.
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Earmarks could be seen as a particularly useful legislative tool if one party holds a slim majority in the House; leaders may have a tougher time passing major pieces of legislation if a handful of lawmakers can derail the vote.
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Presiding over an unusually public negotiating session, Trump engaged with lawmakers from both parties with the television cameras rolling for about an hour on issues ranging from the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and border security to earmarks.
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Yet in an era with no earmarks, and when other institutions like the ones Rauch described have all been weakened, figuring out how to give the rank-in-file a way to reframe the agenda may be the new normal.
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The package includes $523 million in energy loans from the 2009 stimulus package, $86 million in unspent transportation earmarks, $30 million for economic development assistance grants, and $13 million for high energy cost grants, all of which exemplify Washington's profligate spending.
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He has dozens of smaller ideas, too: free marriage counseling; more funding for autism; a ban on airlines removing passengers when they overbook flights; the return of congressional earmarks; and the extension of Daylight Saving Time to the entire year.
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But the system Trump is talking about (lack of earmarks) is only part of a broader political reality -- partisan drawing of House districts, outside groups funding ideological extremists -- that add to the inability of the two sides to get along.
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He ran an insurgent campaign against Cochran, who was first elected in 22010 and, as chair of the Appropriations Committee, had been responsible for many earmarks for his home state, the type of perks a wave of conservatives had been elected to oppose.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - A slowing economy is unlikely to crimp China's 2019 defense budget rise, as Beijing earmarks more spending for modernization and big-ticket items like stealth jets, and focuses on Taiwan after a stern new year's speech from President Xi Jinping.
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Political scientists first began noticing the decline in the competitiveness of congressional elections in the 1970s, At first, they attributed the trend to the ability of incumbents to deter challenges through constituency service, earmarks, campaign fundraising, and other forms of self-promotion.
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"The number of refugees that so far returned voluntarily is low and most have no intention of going back any time soon," Razzaz told a meeting to launch a U.N-funded government plan that earmarks $2.4 billion in funding needs for 2019.
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Under a recently revised fiscal rule, governments can spend 3 percent of the fund's value per year, corresponding to 240 billion crowns of the current size, while the 2017 budget earmarks only 226 billion, or 2.8 percent of the 8 trillion value.
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With Democrats back in control of the House after eight years of Republican control, there is strong support for reviving earmarks — the power to direct money on pet projects — which caused a major scandal in Congress during the George W. Bush years.
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As Congress prepares to send a tax cut gift to every American before Christmas, House Republicans appear to be getting ready to stuff a huge lump of coal in their stockings by holding a clandestine, closed-door, unrecorded vote to restore earmarks.
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Mr. Feehery, like many experienced Washington hands, has lamented the elimination of lawmaker-directed spending items, known as earmarks, which were much maligned in the news media but often served a crucial role in delivering votes from both parties for spending bills.
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With a return of earmarks, President Trump and Democrats in Congress might be able to work out a big infrastructure law that has a reasonable chance of passing and would create jobs and make the commutes of millions of Americans safer and faster.
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In stark contrast, the fiscal 220006 earmarks, which cost $2202 million more than the fiscal 2628 projects, contained no such data and simply created a pool of money to be distributed at a later date without any specific information about the eventual recipients.
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Conservatives also are raising the alarm about a move by House Republicans to restore congressional earmarks — special home-state spending — as long as they are directed to a government agency rather than a private interest, a source of corruption in the past.
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Proponents of earmarks, which often include lobbyists, argue that the elimination of the practice has led to greater gridlock and polarization in Congress and that it is a legitimate part of the job to be appropriating funds to local programs and projects.
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But a $1.3 billion funding gap has opened up, mostly because of a 2016 city policy that earmarks much of the increase in tax revenue for other purposes, including affordable housing, making it unavailable for the streetcar, Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen said.
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The on-again, off-again summit meeting scheduling had all the earmarks of a television cliffhanger from a president who made a name for himself hosting a reality show on NBC for 14 years, only this time there were deadly serious consequences.
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House Democratic leaders hope to pass all 12 spending bills by the end of June, and any effort to revive earmarks was seen as too complex and politically fraught to pursue in such a short time frame and in an election year.
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House Republicans had considered restoring earmarks in the next Congress until Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE (R-Wis.) quashed the idea.
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"Plus, the wall isn't so much a wall as it is a fence" Flake also expressed his surprised that Trump was open to bringing back earmarks as a way to increase bipartisan cooperation in Congress and expedite funding of the border fence.
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A moratorium on earmarks from 2011 expired in January and Democratic leaders, including House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, spent weeks earlier this year working with Republicans in both chambers to reach a deal to usher them back, though that deal never materialized.
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In addition to helping lawmakers fulfill their constitutional responsibility to direct spending, earmarks create opportunities for the political minority to participate in the process and accomplish important priorities for their districts, which gives them incentives to vote for authorization and appropriation bills.
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For example, earmarks are how we, the taxpayers, ended up funding tattoo removal in California, pest control in Guam, a water taxi service on the aptly named Pleasure Beach in Connecticut, a sheep institute in Montana and a cowboy poetry gathering in Nevada.
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In 2001, Robert Skomorucha, an old Biden family friend who worked in the government-and-community-relations department at St. Joseph's University, proposed that Hunter solicit earmarks for one of the university's student-volunteer programs, at an underprivileged high school in Philadelphia.
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Trump suggested last week that earmarks could "get this country really rolling again," but lawmakers are split on whether they reinforce Washington's "swamp" culture or if they are part of Congress' constitutional powers as the branch with the power of the purse.
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It's quite likely that current CEO Sundar Pichai sees China differently than Google co-founder Sergey Brin who grew up in the former Soviet Union and had said in 2010 that China bore the "same earmarks of totalitarianism," which he found to be troubling.
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BEIJING, Feb 21.11 (Reuters) - A slowing economy is unlikely to crimp China's 20183 defence budget rise, as Beijing earmarks more spending for modernisation and big-ticket items like stealth jets, and focuses on Taiwan after a stern new year's speech from President Xi Jinping.
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But over the years, members on both sides of the aisle have grown increasingly frustrated with their inability to secure federal funding for specific projects and other needs in their districts, saying the lack of earmarks has ceded too much power to the executive branch.
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After BoehnerJohn Andrew BoehnerLobbyists race to cash in on cannabis boom Rising star Ratcliffe faces battle to become Trump's intel chief This little engine delivers results for DC children MORE's departure from Congress in 2015, some supporters saw an opening to bring back earmarks.
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Taking an evidence-based approach to resource allocation would go a long way to realizing the commitments the U.S. made alongside dozens of donors at the World Humanitarian Summit in 2016 to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of humanitarian aid by reducing funding earmarks.
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Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE (R-Wis.) postponed the vote after several members proposed a "modification" to restore earmarks for certain types of projects.
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Congress has done away with earmarks, the spending projects lawmakers tucked in spending bills for their states, and committee chairmen are not the imposing barons they were before power flowed almost entirely from the leadership, as it does today in the House and the Senate.
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The funding for state and local governments, the board says, is even worse: New York is currently the state hardest hit by the coronavirus and may lose up to $15 billion in revenue, yet the relief package earmarks only $3.1 billion for the state.
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The funding for state and local governments, the board says, is even worse: New York is currently the state hardest hit by the coronavirus and may lose up to $15 billion in revenue, yet the relief package earmarks only $3.1 billion for the state.
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Lisa MurkowskiLisa Ann MurkowskiThe Hill's Morning Report - Progressives, centrists clash in lively Democratic debate Senate braces for brawl over Trump's spy chief Congress kicks bipartisan energy innovation into higher gear MORE (R) is providing a compelling demonstration of just how bad earmarks can be.
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His footnote has all the earmarks of having been designed to secure the agreement of Justice Kennedy, whose position at the ideological center of the court over many years exacted a high degree of deference from colleagues seeking to get or hold his vote.
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Mike SimpsonMIchael (Mike) Keith SimpsonHouse passes Paycheck Fairness Act Press: Democrats dare to think big Dem chairwoman seeks watchdog probe of Park Service's shutdown operations MORE (R-Idaho), said that many members of the GOP conference have been warming to the idea of earmarks.
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"If we make the mistake of restoring the same old earmarks, I fear Republicans will not get the opportunity to take these steps because we will again be relegated to the minority as a consequence for losing our way," Walker said before the Rules hearing.
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Here are five things the GOP must do to prove they deserve remaining in the majority: Pass their spending bills and claim credit for what is in them: Earmarks are gone but that doesn't mean that Republicans should ignore what comes with their appropriations work.
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A debate over spending authority The explosion in earmarks roughly 15 years ago gave the Appropriations Committee the nickname as the "favor factory," with lobbyists contributing campaign donations to members of the panel and clients nabbing federal money for water systems, road construction and other items.
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Would the Republican Party be more moderate and problem-solving if only Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan had more freedom to wheel and deal behind the scenes, and more money to lord over more extreme members of their party, and more earmarks to win their complicity?
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Nonetheless, the earmark revival attempt appears to be timed more closely with the upcoming consideration of a new infrastructure bill, despite the lurid history of the $24 billion in earmarks in the 2005 highway bill, including the infamous $223 million Gravina Island "bridge to nowhere" in Alaska.
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In a freewheeling meeting about immigration with congressional Republicans and Democrats this week, Mr. Trump lamented the gridlock that has gripped the capital in recent years and suggested that earmarks, the practice of stealthily stuffing funding for pet projects into legislation, be exhumed from the legislative graveyard.
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She established herself as a formidable fund-raiser and made still more friends upon landing a seat in 1993 on the Appropriations Committee — which, before Congress curtailed the practice, controlled the process of distributing the lucrative earmarks that members sought for their districts, constituents and benefactors.
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The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday proposed a new $750 billion infrastructure spending bill that earmarks $55 billion for the nation's railways, $30 billion for airport infrastructure improvements, $20 billion for the nation's harbors, $50 billion for cleaner water, and $98 billion to expand broadband coverage.
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The lone chug, now stranded far from any ocean, serves as a kind of proxy for the beleaguered and displaced immigrant body — showing signs of wear and earmarks of scrappy ingenuity in making it this far, but beached in ambiguity, without even a guiding horizon in sight.
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The infamous "bridge to nowhere" — a proposed $400 million project to construct a bridge between the city of Ketchikan, Alaska, and a nearby island with an airport — further drew nationwide derision around the same time as Cunningham's legal troubles and paved the way for banning earmarks.
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Visclosky — who received campaign donations from Magliocchetti's firm, PMA Group and its clients and sponsored millions in earmarks that benefitted companies it represented — was subpoenaed to appear before a federal grand jury and came under investigation by the House Ethics Committee, though he denied any wrongdoing.
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One of his earliest published works, it has all the earmarks of King at his finest: an engrossing plot featuring psychological suspense, a deep sense of nostalgia for a specific time and place, and a complex villain — in this case, a serial killer nicknamed Springheel Jack.
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Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale has some of the earmarks of becoming a big TV hit (if not a Game of Thrones-level one), but it really does feel like the phenomenon of a huge TV hit really requires an initial airing where everybody is watching at the same time.
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"$25.2 billion in the scheme of the federal budget doesn't mean very much, but as you've heard before, these earmarks -- even though they seem small -- are the gateway drug to additional spending because you see the lack of discipline extended throughout the budget," Flores said at the event.
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One of the Alaska lawmaker's infamous moments entailed holding a knife to former Speaker John BoehnerJohn Andrew BoehnerLobbyists race to cash in on cannabis boom Rising star Ratcliffe faces battle to become Trump's intel chief This little engine delivers results for DC children MORE's throat while debating earmarks.
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Prominent outside conservative groups and the powerful House Freedom Caucus, which will have a strong say in choosing Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanPaul Ryan moving family to Washington Embattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway MORE's (R-Wis.) successor, remain staunchly opposed to earmarks.
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Netflix earmarks $420M to fight Disney in India "This year and next year, we plan to spend about Rs 3,000 crores developing and licensing content and you will start to see a lot of stuff hit the screens," said CEO Reed Hastings at a conference in New Delhi. 4.
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Bill PascrellWilliam (Bill) James PascrellDemocrats, GOP spar over Treasury rules on Trump tax law On The Money: Economy adds 225K jobs in January, topping expectations | Appeals court tosses Dems' lawsuit over emoluments | Democrats decide against bringing back earmarks Democrat hits Mnuchin for giving Hunter Biden docs to Republicans MORE (D-N.
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The ethics premise that drove the movement to eliminate earmarks was that it was fine for Congress to pass a bill giving money to specific policy needs in a state, but it became "corrupting" when lawmakers began earmarking funds for specific projects, often associated with donors, political cronies or pet causes.
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An aide for Hoyer, the No. 2 Democrat in the House, said in a statement to The Hill that the Maryland lawmaker is currently talking to members about the idea and working to build bipartisan support to reinstate earmarks, as long as they include reforms to ensure transparency and accountability.
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Some critics of Congress have suggested that the institution restore the practice of earmarks in order to grease the wheels of the legislative apparatus, but such a measure is unlikely to change the behavior of members who have dedicated themselves to the conspicuous pursuit of ideological principles over transactional politics.
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Abuse of earmarks was one of the main sources of congressional corruption that led to tighter ethics rules and a ban on such spending, and Mr. Ryan and his allies believed that a quick move to restore them so soon after Mr. Trump's election would not send the proper signal.
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Rep. Bill PascrellWilliam (Bill) James PascrellDemocrats, GOP spar over Treasury rules on Trump tax law On The Money: Economy adds 225K jobs in January, topping expectations | Appeals court tosses Dems' lawsuit over emoluments | Democrats decide against bringing back earmarks Democrat hits Mnuchin for giving Hunter Biden docs to Republicans MORE (D-N.
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Bill PascrellWilliam (Bill) James PascrellDemocrats, GOP spar over Treasury rules on Trump tax law On The Money: Economy adds 225K jobs in January, topping expectations | Appeals court tosses Dems' lawsuit over emoluments | Democrats decide against bringing back earmarks Democrat hits Mnuchin for giving Hunter Biden docs to Republicans MORE Jr. (D-N.
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Lisa MurkowskiLisa Ann MurkowskiThe Hill's Morning Report - Progressives, centrists clash in lively Democratic debate Senate braces for brawl over Trump's spy chief Congress kicks bipartisan energy innovation into higher gear MORE (R-Alaska), chairwoman of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, is one of the most outspoken proponents for bringing back earmarks.
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John McCainJohn Sidney McCainMcCain's family, McCain Institute to promote #ActsOfCivility in marking first anniversary of senator's death Arizona poll shows Kelly overtaking McSally 3 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 MORE (R-Ariz.), who died last year, are no longer in Congress to fight the return of earmarks.
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The meeting Tuesday was an unusually public one at the White House with Trump keeping the press in the room for nearly an hour as he meandered from a variety of topics from earmarks to immigration and proclaimed he was open to signing just about any DACA bill that the Congress sent him.
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Don YoungDonald (Don) Edwin YoungHouse passes bill requiring CBP to enact safety, hygiene standards GOP scores procedural win by securing more funding to enforce Iran sanctions Ex-GOP lawmakers are face of marijuana blitz MORE (R-Alaska), a proponent of the bridge, defended it on Wednesday as he expressed support for allowing earmarks.
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But if you think earmarks would restore order to Congress, do the following thought experiment: Imagine if Boehner came around to the House Freedom Caucus members, who refused to support his budget deal because they wanted more drastic cuts in federal spending, and promised to spend more federal money in their districts.
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Mike PenceMichael (Mike) Richard PenceThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump on defense over economic jitters FEC chair calls on Trump to provide evidence of NH voter fraud Five years after Yazidi genocide, US warns ISIS is rebounding MORE, with whom he worked closely in the House to oppose earmarks, clashing with GOP leaders at the time.
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Then-Speaker John BoehnerJohn Andrew BoehnerLobbyists race to cash in on cannabis boom Rising star Ratcliffe faces battle to become Trump's intel chief This little engine delivers results for DC children MORE (R-Ohio) took immediate action to appease the right flank, most notably by banning congressional earmarks, something many Tea Party candidates campaigned on.
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Retiring Senate Democratic Leader Harry ReidHarry Mason Reid2020 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care Reid says he wishes Franken would run for Senate again Panel: How Biden's gaffes could cost him against Trump MORE exhorted members of Congress to revive spending earmarks in one of his final speeches to his colleagues.
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Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE's request to hold off on decisions about earmarks until Congress has the time to consider this proposal in a broader context of overall reform was a wise leadership decision.
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Today, in what had all the earmarks of a desperate effort to distract from her blackface remarks and cast her ouster from the Today show as another #MeToo moment in NBC News' history, Kelly's lawyer reportedly demanded that Ronan Farrow witness Friday's scheduled meeting between Kelly's camp and NBC brass to talk about her future.
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Behind former Speaker John BoehnerJohn Andrew BoehnerLobbyists race to cash in on cannabis boom Rising star Ratcliffe faces battle to become Trump's intel chief This little engine delivers results for DC children MORE (R-Ohio), Republicans banned earmarks after winning the House in 2010 and have stuck by that policy despite grumbling from both sides of the aisle.
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Titanic's smashing success and cultural ubiquity overshadowed the fact that, in the months leading up to its release, it had all the earmarks of a flop: It was a contentious production that ran over schedule and budget, forcing a rescheduled release (it was originally slated for July 2, but more time was needed to complete the effects).
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE earlier this year said Republicans might want to think about bringing earmarks back.
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" Mr. Pence also managed to work in a plug for tax cuts by commending Mr. McCain — whom Mr. Pence worked with as a House member to ban earmarks and instill some fiscal discipline — noting that his support for "limited government, for tax reform, and support for our armed forces surely left our nation more prosperous and more secure.
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Earmarks' prospects have been looking up lately, with President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE openly musing about bringing them back.
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Perhaps crucially for Republicans seeking political cover, House Minority Whip Steny HoyerSteny Hamilton HoyerLiberal Democrat eyes aid cuts to Israel after Omar, Tlaib denied entry Lawmakers blast Trump as Israel bars door to Tlaib and Omar Israel denies Omar and Tlaib entry after Trump tweet MORE (D-Md.) testified before the Rules Committee that he would support reinstating earmarks.
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Club for Growth, a top conservative group, on Tuesday came out against President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's call for Congress to consider bringing back earmarks.
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Exactly six years ago to the day, a coalition of reformers, that included leaders like Tom CoburnThomas (Tom) Allen CoburnThe Hill's Morning Report — Presented by PhRMA — Worries grow about political violence as midterms approach President Trump's war on federal waste American patients face too many hurdles in regard to health-care access MORE, led the effort to ban earmarks in the Senate.
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One of the strongest proponents of earmarks is House Majority Leader Steny HoyerSteny Hamilton HoyerOmar says US should reconsider aid to Israel Liberal Democrat eyes aid cuts to Israel after Omar, Tlaib denied entry Lawmakers blast Trump as Israel bars door to Tlaib and Omar MORE (D-Md.), who like Pelosi served as a member of the House Appropriations Committee.
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It would be ironic if the body of Congress that led the way in making a wise policy and political decision to place a moratorium on earmarks reversed course in a manner that will indubitably lead to the second demise of the Republican majority in 12 years, especially after Senate Republicans unanimously agreed to extend the moratorium for the 115th Congress in January.
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Referring to Mr. Trump's desire to "drain the swamp," Mr. Ryan halted an effort at a closed-door procedural meeting on Wednesday that would have lifted a ban on earmarks — the oft-criticized practice of allowing lawmakers to allocate money to specific projects in their states or districts — promising instead to hold a vote on the proposal early next year.
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When Washington insiders today talk of "getting back to regular order"—which, let's be honest, they do only selectively, when it serves their own interests—what they're often longing for is a process in which leaders and committee chairmen write bills in secret with the help of lobbyists, then hand out earmarks to buy off principled dissent and secure votes for passage.
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Mr. Trump has become such a Washington creature that he's rooting for a return to earmarks, that opaque process in which legislators direct federal spending to their home districts and pet projects, like Republican Representative Don Young of Alaska's failed "bridge to nowhere," a plan to waste more than $300 million on a mammoth bridge to an Alaska island of 50 inhabitants.
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Momentum is building in Congress to revive the use of earmarks after President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE endorsed the idea on Tuesday.
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I know Zivich and Sperry, as well as members of Cave, to be actively engaged in pushing the fringes of contemporary art practice and presentation, and Eric Schmid is an Idiot bears several of the earmarks of the What Pipeline/Cave aesthetic: conscious primitivism, repurposed and decaying materials, chaos, experimental sound/performance art, employment of cool intellectualism to create emotional distance between maker and object.
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The moratorium on earmarks is a GOP conference rule, not a House rule, initiated under now-former Speaker John BoehnerJohn Andrew BoehnerLobbyists race to cash in on cannabis boom Rising star Ratcliffe faces battle to become Trump's intel chief This little engine delivers results for DC children MORE (R-Ohio) after the 2010 Tea Party wave that put House Republicans back in charge of the chamber.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE on Tuesday surprised many by embracing legislative earmarks as smart policy, even though his party made a show of banning the practice in 2010.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE appeared to endorse reviving earmarks during a meeting at the White House last week, suggesting they could help Congress function better.
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Some of the proposals are worthwhile: ending Congress's ban on earmarks, which were denounced by good-government folks for years but actually served a useful role in the legislative process; holding regular Q&As between presidents and lawmakers, similar to the British Parliament's weekly Prime Minister's Questions; and allowing congressmen to anonymously force up-and-down votes on popular legislation, thus circumventing the House speaker without incurring his wrath.
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C.) and Tom CoburnThomas (Tom) Allen CoburnThe Hill's Morning Report — Presented by PhRMA — Worries grow about political violence as midterms approach President Trump's war on federal waste American patients face too many hurdles in regard to health-care access MORE (R-Okla.) helped spearhead the effort to ban earmarks by enlisting the support of grassroots activists and everyday Americans rightly appalled at the cronyism that was pervading the halls of Congress.
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Adding momentum to the push, President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE appeared to endorse reviving earmarks during a meeting at the White House last week, suggesting that they could help Congress function better.
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There are many reasons to keep earmarks out of legislating, as NBC's Allen pointed out: Black and Hispanic members got half as much money as their white counterparts; politically vulnerable Democrats and Republicans got more money than those in safe districts (so they would have more to brag about in seeking re-election); the people who sat nearest to Defense Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Jack Murtha got more; and there was virtually no vetting process.
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House Rules Committee Chairman Pete SessionsPeter Anderson SessionsHillicon Valley — Presented by CTIA and America's wireless industry — Lawmaker sees political payback in fight over 'deepfakes' measure | Tech giants to testify at hearing on 'censorship' claims | Google pulls the plug on AI council Lawmaker alleges political payback in failed 'deepfakes' measure As Russia collusion fades, Ukrainian plot to help Clinton emerges MORE (R-Texas) stressed that any return to spending that resembles earmarks would include reforms.
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Jeff FlakeJeffrey (Jeff) Lane FlakeArpaio considering running for former sheriff job after Trump pardon Overnight Energy: Warren edges past Sanders in poll of climate-focused voters | Carbon tax shows new signs of life | Greens fuming at Trump plans for development at Bears Ears monument Carbon tax shows new signs of life in Congress MORE (R-Ariz.), who pushed to end earmarks and who is retiring after this Congress, plans to hold a bipartisan barbecue pork lunch with Sen.
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There is already enthusiasm among leaders in both parties for resurrecting earmarks, with support from House Minority Whip Steny HoyerSteny Hamilton HoyerOmar says US should reconsider aid to Israel Liberal Democrat eyes aid cuts to Israel after Omar, Tlaib denied entry Lawmakers blast Trump as Israel bars door to Tlaib and Omar MORE (D-Md.) and President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE.
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Rep. Don YoungDonald (Don) Edwin YoungHouse passes bill requiring CBP to enact safety, hygiene standards GOP scores procedural win by securing more funding to enforce Iran sanctions Ex-GOP lawmakers are face of marijuana blitz MORE (R-Alaska) once pinned former Speaker John BoehnerJohn Andrew BoehnerLobbyists race to cash in on cannabis boom Rising star Ratcliffe faces battle to become Trump's intel chief This little engine delivers results for DC children MORE (R-Ohio) against a wall and held a knife to his throat during a heated debate about earmarks.
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Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE (R-Wis.) on Wednesday persuaded Republicans to postpone votes on bringing back legislative earmarks until 85033 after reminding members of President-elect Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's promise to "drain the swamp" of Washington.
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Earmarks for Alaskan fisheries You may remember the $85033 trillion spending bill passed by Congress in December, but you may not know it included a sneaky provision inserted by Senator Lisa MurkowskiLisa Ann MurkowskiThe Hill's Morning Report - Progressives, centrists clash in lively Democratic debate Senate braces for brawl over Trump's spy chief Congress kicks bipartisan energy innovation into higher gear MORE (R-Alaska), who represents the $6 billion Alaskan fishing industry, to block the FDA from allowing AquaAdvantage Salmon to be sold in the U.S. until it publishes labeling regulations specific to GM fish, which could take years to issue.
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It was a body for whom the muscle of consensus-building had atrophied, a deterioration that led them to regard John BoehnerJohn Andrew BoehnerLobbyists race to cash in on cannabis boom Rising star Ratcliffe faces battle to become Trump's intel chief This little engine delivers results for DC children MORE, the speaker who banished earmarks and erased the discretionary spending legacy of President Barack ObamaBarack Hussein Obama3 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 Obama's high school basketball jersey sells for 85033,000 at auction Dirty little wars and the law: Did Osama bin Laden win?
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Trump makes rare trip to Clinton state, hoping to win back New Hampshire MORE (Ariz.), Ted CruzRafael (Ted) Edward CruzTrump moves forward with F-6900 sale to Taiwan opposed by China The Hill's Campaign Report: Battle for Senate begins to take shape O'Rourke says he will not 'in any scenario' run for Senate MORE (Texas), Rand PaulRandal (Rand) Howard PaulGraham promises ObamaCare repeal if Trump, Republicans win in 2628 Conservatives buck Trump over worries of 'socialist' drug pricing Rand Paul to 'limit' August activities due to health MORE (Ky.) and Ben Sasse (Neb.) sent a letter to Trump on Tuesday asking the president to "make it clear" that he will oppose any effort to reinstate earmarks.
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