by jpitney | Feb 28, 2021 | Congress, House of Representatives
A release from the House Appropriations Committee: House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) today announced that the House will accept Member requests for Community Project Funding in appropriations bills for the upcoming fiscal year. “Members want...
by jpitney | Feb 16, 2021 | Congress, House of Representatives, Senate
Tara Golshan and Kevin Robillard at HuffPo report that congressional Democrats are planning to revive earmarks. “Chair DeLauro supports Member-directed funding for community projects,” said Evan Hollander, a spokesperson with the House Appropriations Committee, which...
by jpitney | Feb 11, 2021 | Budget, Congress
Zachary Courser and Kevin R. Kosar have an AEI report titled “Restoring the power of the purse: Earmarks and re-empowering legislators to deliver local benefits” Key Points Article I of the US Constitution gives Congress the authority to decide the amount...
by jpitney | Dec 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
NY Times editorial: Despite their bad reputation, earmarks are not inherently corrupt. Since America’s earliest days, they have proved a useful tool for building coalitions. (The first known instance of congressional earmarking dates to the Lighthouse Act of 1789.)...
by jpitney | Oct 13, 2020 | Congress, House of Representatives
At The Washington Post, Paul Kane writes on Tom Graves, Derek Kilmer, and the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress: They believe that if members of Congress could be in charge of directing funding to their districts, they will be much more invested in the...
