Under the leadership of Speaker Nancy Pelosi, up to $13 billion in earmark spending will be allowed on the House appropriations bill, 10 per member, for a total of up to 4,350 earmarks for fiscal year 2022.
Former U.S. Senator and OpentheBooks honorary chairman, Dr. Tom Coburn must be rolling over in his grave with the announcement that House Republicans voted 102-84 via secret ballot to bring back political pork spending aka earmarks. Coburn was responsible for helping eliminate earmarks altogether a decade ago. "Restoring earmarks in today’s Congress would be like opening a bar tab for a bunch of recovering alcoholics," he said in 2014.
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