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Congress is required by Article 1, Section 9, Clause 7 of the United States Constitution to pass legislation prior to the expenditure of any U.S. Treasury funds. [13] The earmarking process provided Congress with the power to earmark discretionary funds it appropriates to be spent on specific named projects.
Dec. 3—MORGANTOWN — The federal 2024 fiscal year began Oct. 1 and announcements of Congressionally Directed Spending grants — what used to be termed earmarks — will eventually be rolling ...
Rep. Mike Simpson argues earmarks are important for funding in states like Idaho, and the move to abolish them was political. | Opinion.
The same could be said for several Republican-based earmarks too. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R–S.C.) has inserted at least eight earmarks into the bill, forcing federal taxpayers to put up more than ...
Congress brings back earmarks and California collects $766 million in funding for new projects.
The United States Code Congressional and Administrative News (U.S.C.C.A.N.) is a West Group [1] publication that collects selected congressional and administrative materials for publication in a single resource. U.S.C.C.A.N. was first published in 1941 with the 1st Session of the 77th Congress and has been published with every session of ...
In January 2015, a report by the Sunlight Foundation and OpenSecrets found that of 104 former congressional members and staffers whose "cooling off" period ended during the first session of the 114th Congress which opened January 6, 2015, 29 were already in government relations, "public affairs," or serve as counsel at a firm that lobbies, and ...
Congressional earmarks – otherwise known as “pork barrel spending” – may be coming back. For decades, earmarks paid for pet projects back in lawmakers’ districts, with the tacit aim to ...