Democrats release plan to bring back earmarks
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The House Appropriation Committee unveiled a plan to bring back earmarks Friday, rebranding them as “community project funding.”
The committee says the earmark process has been "reformed" and with checks in place to make sure the project funding is dedicated to "genuine need and not subject to abuse." Earmarks have at times bred corruption and fraud. Under the new plan, lawmakers would be required to post funding requests online to a searchable website the committee will set up when they submit them to the Appropriations Committee.More Related News