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Pingree, Golden unveil earmark requests for federal funding of 20 Maine projects
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Reps. Chellie Pingree and Jared Golden have unveiled their list of requests for Congressional earmarks, the member-requested federal funding initiatives that are returning to Congress after a decade-long ban.
Under new rules designed to avoid corruption and abuse, each House member is allowed to request 10 earmarks to benefit nonprofits and governmental entities – but not private firms – in their districts. Members had to post their list of requests – only a fraction of which will be granted by the House’s budget appropriators – by Wednesday evening.
The lists from Maine’s members include requests that would revive what had been southern Maine’s only inpatient detoxification program; improve or replace water and sewer infrastructure in several Maine towns; renovate landmark buildings in Portland, Lewiston, Bridgton and Gardiner; and help fire departments, community college workfor
Earmarks returning to Congress, where Maine’s delegation has outsize influence in the right places
The member-driven spending initiatives, with guardrails in place, could fund critical projects in Maine.
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Earmarks – member-requested funding initiatives – are returning to Congress after a decadelong ban, giving Maine nonprofits, municipalities, counties and state government a chance to ask their representatives for federal funding for specific projects.
Maine’s senior members in each chamber have influential positions on the appropriations committees, where the final decisions will be made on which of the projects submitted by members are funded. Rep. Chellie Pingree chairs the House subcommittee that controls the purse strings for the Environmental Protection Agency and most Interior Department agencies. Sen. Susan Collins is the ranking Republican on the Senate subcommittee that appropriates funds for the departments of Transportation and Housing and Urban Developm