A historic opportunity was missed over the weekend — an opportunity for members of Congress to make a stand together against wasteful pork-barrel spending by bringing the congressional practice known as “earmarking” to a screeching halt.
Earmarks have become a symbol of a broken Washington. Taxpayers have seen their hard-earned money used by Congress to fund a hippie museum … a bridge to nowhere … even peanut storage, buried in a troop funding bill.
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