Opinion: Congress isn’t accomplishing much lately, but Senate Republicans deserve credit for one thing they aren’t doing: Restoring the practice of earmarks
Congress isn’t accomplishing much lately, but Senate Republicans deserve credit for one thing they aren’t doing: Restoring the practice of earmarks. The Senate Republican conference on Thursday adopted a permanent ban on such parochial handouts, an effort led by Nebraska’s Ben Sasse.
Earmarks in the early 2000s were a hardy perennial in appropriations bills, from defense to transportation. The 11 appropriations bills for 2006 included $29 billion in earmarked spending across some 9,963 projects, according to Citizens Against...
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