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• The Heritage Foundation > Research > Budget > Congressional Earmarks and Spending Undermine Decisionmaking   .
• How Congressional Earmarks and Pork-Barrel Spending Undermine State and Local Decisionmaking by Dr. ...
• " Earmarks appear most commonly, but not exclusively, in appropriations bills passed by Congress and signed into law by the President.
• To help deflect public cynicism about TEA 21's 1,850 earmarks, Congress tried renaming them. The highway earmarks--formerly "demonstration projects"--became "high priority" projects; but this attempt fooled neither the public nor the media. Many of the questionable earmarks became front-page news and talk-radio fodder. ... Appendix A includes a sampling of some of the earmarks from recent legislation.
• Indeed, the wastefulness and the number of earmarks that characterized TEA 21 seemed but modest indiscretions by the standards of fiscal excess with which Congress crafted the fiscal year (FY) 1999 Omnibus Appropriations bill, which was enacted into law during the waning days of the 105th Congress. For example, although the 1,850 transportation earmarks in TEA 21, spread over the six-year life of the legislation, amount to 300 per year, this is less than half the annual number produced by the Transportation Appropriations Subcommittee.
• Although much of the public criticism of pork-barrel spending focuses on the outrageous and humorous waste such earmarks often entail, the more troublesome, yet often overlooked, implication of this escalating trend is the extent to which they reflect Washington's growing propensity to micromanage state and local affairs. All of the earmarks in TEA 21, as well as the several thousand pork projects buried in the 13 appropriations bills in FY 1999, represent a federal rebuke of the priorities set by governors and local leaders who are far more familiar with the needs of their states and more closely tied to the wishes of their communities. Were it not for such earmarks, few communities would choose voluntarily to spend scarce transportation funds on these marginal projects. In fact, half the highway earmarks go unfunded for want of local matching money--which demonstrates how marginal many of these projects really are.
• For example, Florida's Department of Transportation challenged the priority status of TEA 21 earmarks, but the U. ...
• Options available to Congress to control the earmark process include (1) enhanced rescission authority or a line-item veto acceptable to the courts; (2) more intense moral suasion from the congressional leadership to discourage Members from engaging in the practice; and (3) legislative language in spending and other bills to require that the money for such earmarks must come from a state's normal allocation formula.
• Pork-barrel politics has a long and traditional pedigree in the United States, but what differs today from past practice is the meteoric growth of earmarks in the late 1990s. ...

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