Earmarks

Report: Trio of GOP Representatives Propose to Unravel Earmark Ban

Tatiana Lozano -

November 15, 2016 8:06 pm

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell already shot down any chance that GOP leaders could resurrect the earmark moratorium now that they control the White House and Congress. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

News

Conservatives to Congress: Don’t touch the earmark ban

Susan Crabtree -

November 15, 2016 12:55 pm

Congressmen today defend earmarks, as they have for years, based on Congress's constitutional power of the purse. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Opinion

Bring back earmarks? Republicans play with fire

Washington Examiner -

September 28, 2016 4:01 am

One of the most notorious earmarks was the $223 million

Magazine

Earmarks could be on their way back in Congress

Susan Ferrechio -

September 26, 2016 4:01 am

2016 Congressional Pig Book has 123 instances of earmarked, pork barrel spending in the federal 2016 budget. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beltway Confidential

Cutting zombie earmarks easy way for Congress to save billions

Jason Russell -

April 13, 2016 1:00 pm

Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., leaves the chamber at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 26, 2015. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Columnists

Omnibus includes Thad Cochran’s $640 million Coast Guard cutter for K Street

Timothy P. Carney -

December 18, 2015 12:31 am

Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-OH, called a controversial Planned Parenthood video

Politics

Regrets? Lonely Boehner departs with too few to mention

Susan Ferrechio -

October 28, 2015 11:43 pm

Politics

McCarthy would keep Boehner’s earmark ban

Pete Kasperowicz -

October 4, 2015 4:01 am

Red Alert Politics

New Jersey woman murdered while awaiting gun permit for self-protection

Ryan Girdusky -

June 8, 2015 6:48 pm

Beltway Confidential

Cost of earmarks rising despite congressional ‘moratorium’

Jason Russell -

May 13, 2015 1:00 pm

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