Posted on 05/05/2021 12:30:14 PM PDT by cotton1706
At least six Senate Republicans have committed to requesting earmarks during the current congressional session, despite an ostensible conference ban on the practice.
Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt, West Virginia Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, Maine Sen. Susan Collins, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, and Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby confirmed to Politico on Tuesday that they would request earmarks. Ten other Republican senators said that they were undecided on the practice, five refused to comment, and 29 confirmed that they would not request earmarks.
Earmarks are line items inserted into bills that direct money towards a specific recipient. By directing spending toward a specific Congress member’s district, they can be used to gain a reluctant member’s support for a piece of legislation.
Citing an extensive record of wasteful spending, Congressional Republicans first banned earmarks in 2011. That ban was initially temporary and had to be renewed every two years. At the urging of Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse, they made the ban permanent in 2019. “Earmarks are a crummy way to govern and they have no business in Congress. Backroom deals, kickbacks, and earmarks feed a culture of constant incumbency and that’s poisonous to healthy self-government,” Sasse said at the time.
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Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt, West Virginia Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, Maine Sen. Susan Collins, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, and Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby
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Bush League Republicans all.
Just keep voting for the R
No matter how bad they are
Rah Rah Romney
Hail Hail Haley
If the congress can insert line-items, why can’t the president veto line-items?
sad. that was one of the first successes of the tea party against the gope. we shamed them into it by melting down their phone lines and winning a landslide in 2010. well, they do it under the table anyway.
coburn was nothing great for the populist movement but at least he shamed all the appropriators at the hog trough. too bad we don’t have one like him left in the gope.
By the way, I could have guessed who was on the list.
Stop asking questions and just wear your mask!
Earmarks are direct money towards a specific recipient.”spending” toward a Congress member’s district, ...used to gain a reluctant member’s support for a piece of legislation.
Cross my palm bribery!
I just know that John “Wayne” McCornyn will be in that group. Put that in the bank.
Agree he’ll have his grubby little hands out.
Well you keep on voting for your favorite d then. One day you will find a good one !
“The Swamp Strikes Back — Many Republicans Will Earmark Again”
That’s why I spell it Congre$$
I don’t vote for Democrats, and I am done voting for Assistant Democrats in R jerseys, too.
It would be wonderful if writers did not refer to this group of clowns and quite a handful of others as, Republicans. It would be wonderful if they referred to them for what they are, Prostitutes that the people of their respective states can’t seem to get enough of.
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