After the House GOP’s defense of the earmark ban collapsed in a lopsided vote to restore the practice — which became a dirty word after years of earmark-driven corruption scandals in the early 2000s — the Senate GOP is agonizing over whether to follow suit. It’s hard to find many GOP defenders of the earmark, but that doesn’t mean Republican senators want to unilaterally disarm when their House counterparts and Democrats can bring home the bacon to their constituents.
States ad locals are FUBAR no matter how we phrase it. Just bite the bullet and send cash to state capitals on a revenue sharing agreement.
We have been through all the other possible fixes, and I am not one who wants to review old material. Just move on, give the states cash and be done with it.
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