Return of the Swamp Creatures
2/22/21
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by Kimberley Strassel,
from The Wall Street Journal,
2/18/21:
Democrats prepare to bring back earmarks. Republicans should resist the temptation.
Washington doesn’t usually make it easy to pinpoint the moment when things went wrong. So thanks to Rep. Rosa DeLauro for publicly heralding the return of the swamp.
The announcement actually came from a spokesman for the House Appropriations Committee, which the Connecticut Democrat oversees. “Chair DeLauro supports Member-directed funding for community projects,” Evan Hollander told HuffPost this week. For those uninitiated in Washington doublespeak, earmarks are back.
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