House lawmakers have begun examining ways to help make the chamber run more efficiently, and the top recommendations call for raising the pay of lawmakers and allowing long-vilified earmarks to be included once again in spending bills.
In a modernization hearing held recently, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., called reviving earmarks, “putting members back in the driver’s seat on funding decisions.”
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