Congressional earmarks were banned for a decade.
Last week, however, 3,309 earmarks from 220 Democrats and 104 Republicans were proposed. Pork is back on the table. The total tab for taxpayers is nearly $10 billion. We broke our investigation at Forbes where we also included links to our interactive map – we mapped all earmarks by congressional district.
It’s a reminder of why the practice was banned as the “currency of corruption in Congress.”
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