Earmarks are back. Here’s what lawmakers want Congress to spend money on in Pa. and South Jersey Jonathan Tamari, The Philadelphia Inquirer © TYGER WILLIAMS/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS U.S. Rep. Dwight Evans (D., Pa.) requested a $1 million spending earmark for the Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium, which has provided health care and vaccinations in Philadelphia.
WASHINGTON Earmarks are back.
If lawmakers have their way, Congress may soon set aside $1 million for a sports and recreation facility in North Philadelphia and $500,000 to help people with mental health problems or addiction avoid incarceration in Bucks County. There’d be $5.5 million for a new police and fire facility near Scranton, $1.5 million to restore the Lansdowne Theater in Delaware County and spur economic development, and $1 million to increase the size of nursing classes at Lebanon Valley College outside Harrisburg.
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February 25, 2021
Over a decade after earmarks were banned by congressional Republicans, Democrats are looking to bring them back.
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It’s been dubbed the airport for no one, partially built with $200 million in congressional earmarks, federal taxpayer money for an airport in rural Pennsylvania that has a couple United Express flights each day.
This is the John Murtha Johnstown-Cambria County Airport, named for the late congressman who secured the funds.
“He had a grander vision for this area. He loved this area, there s no doubt about that,” Chad Gontkovic, the airport’s manager, told Newsy.
For 36 years, Congressman Murtha represented the Johnstown area in Washington, also serving as Democratic chair of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee.
Earmarks may be coming back to Washington CNN 2/18/2021 Analysis by Stephen Collinson © Tech. Sgt. Bryan Hoover/U.S. Air National Guard A member of the Pennsylvania Air National Guard watches a vehicle taxi at the John Murtha Johnstown-Cambria County Airport, on September 22, 2020 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
John Murtha airport is one of those destinations where your plane seems to trundle for hours over miles of taxiways before reaching the terminal. Its powerful radar, vast concrete apron, tall control tower and big jet runways all impress, remnants of a bygone political age, when local pols funneled millions of bucks to white elephants back home.