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Heightened focus on $12.7 billion in earmarks amid $34 trillion in national debt. 'Earmarks turn Republicans Democrat,' one senator says.

Republican lawmakers are pressing congressional leaders to allow amendments against controversial special interest provisions.

Commentary Both chambers of Congress are locked in fierce battles over spending legislation. A “supplemental” package has found bipartisan ...

Commentary This week, the Senate will be debating—and will likely vote on—a package of spending bills that covers the ...

Local and community projects funded by tax money allocated by Congress, commonly known as “earmarks,” are often wasteful ...

Through tens of thousands of Freedom of Information Act requests, OpenTheBooks.com has compiled and made public almost all ...

Three retiring Republican senators—Roy Blunt of Missouri, Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, and Richard Shelby of Alabama—received more than ...

Members of Congress from both parties appear headed to approving a record number of earmarks—tax-funded spending projects in ...

House Republican leaders are revamping their approach to earmarks—a legislative tool that enables individual representatives to direct tax ...

In the newly passed $1.7 trillion federal appropriation bill, a sum of $21.2 million was earmarked for 11 local ...

The more than 4,000-page, $1.7 trillion "omnibus" government funding bill that President Joe Biden has vowed to sign ...

A round-robin series of crucial last-minute decisions by senators anxious to wrap up their work before Christmas resulted ...

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) will offer an amendment to the nearly 5,000-page, $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill that, ...

Congress is negotiating more than 7,500 "pork-barrel spending" earmarks totaling $16 billion for a year-long omnibus spending bill. ...

Commentary There is little Republicans and Democrats in Congress agree on these days, but spending (and borrowing) money ...

Four key House Republicans are questioning a $500 million earmark sought by President Joe Biden for an international ...

With the return of earmarks after a decade-long moratorium, Democrats and Republicans alike have dedicated significant discretionary spending ...

Data from the Bipartisan Policy Center reveal that congressmen in the House Freedom Caucus requested earmarks in last ...

Nine of the 16 Senate Republicans who received earmarks in 2022 are members of the upper chamber's Appropriations ...

News Analysis The late Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) earned his "Dr. No" nickname in the U.S. Senate with ...

It took five months for the $1.5 trillion federal appropriations bill to surface after the United States’ fiscal ...

Rep. Ted Budd (R-N.C.) introduced an amendment to House Democrats’ “INVEST in America Surface Transportation and Infrastructure Act” ...

Congressional Republicans voted much more strongly against wasteful federal spending in the months leading up to the 2020 ...

House Republicans during a party meeting voted to lift their decade-old self-imposed ban on earmarks, which will allow members to ...

Commentary The front-page headline in Monday’s Wall Street Journal said: “Biden weighs how to pay for Agenda.” Who ...

Bringing back earmarks in federal spending is the worst “way to build back trust in Congress” because they ...

House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) confirmed late on Feb. 26 that earmarks—which she termed “Community Project ...