The House ethics committee is grappling with how it should interpret the new rules governing earmarks and explain what is legal and ethical, and what is not. “It is a particularly difficult issue to ...
WASHINGTON — Across social media, there have been a lot of posts about earmarks in the last month, following a decision by congressional leaders to bring the process back after a decade-long ban. For ...
Congress has been having an extraordinarily difficult time figuring out how to respond to lobbying scandals and clean up the corrupt budgeting practice called “earmarking.” This is not surprising.