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Doing Earmarks Right
| 题名： | Doing Earmarks Right |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 摘要： | This space has long supported what used to be called congressional earmarks and are now being revived and rebranded as "community project funding." Earmarks are bills, or clauses in bills, that direct spending within a particular congressional district, usually to a specific project. Contrary to the fears of the Tea Party activists who succeeded in persuading the GOP to go along with banning earmarks in 2011, when the Republicans had majority control of Congress, earmarks were never responsible at any time for a significant portion of the federal budget or debt. A group of hardcore Republicans remains opposed to reviving them. The publication Axios reported that in a February 26 briefing, House Appropriations Committee chair Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) told the Democratic caucus he wants to bring back earmarks with proposed new "guardrails" to keep them open and transparent, avoiding past scandals. |
| 出版年： | 2021 |
| 期刊名称： | The Waterways Jouranl |
| 卷： | 134 |
| 期： | 50 |
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