Tag: earmarks

Return to earmarks: Wasteful spending or necessary help?

May 24, 2021

Don’t tell Laura Fields that providing $1.7 million to her flood-prone neighborhood would be wasteful spending. Her home in a Houston-area subdivision was filled with

Earmarks or pork? Depends on who is bringing home the bacon

March 13, 2021

They used to call it “taking care of the folks back in the district.” It also means getting votes

Senators: Leave our pork alone

March 13, 2010

President Barack Obama says he wants projects helping specific states yanked from the health care bill Congress is writing. Democratic senators, being senators, beg to