House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., convinced his conference on Wednesday to drop proposals to ease the earmark ban imposed by his predecessor from a package of rules that will govern how the House operates in the next Congress.

“This process was abused for a long period of time and we need to reform the entire way that unelected bureaucrats control federal taxpayer dollars and rewrite regulations that are having a negative impact on our economy,” Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., said after his colleagues acceded to Ryan’s request.