Executive Summary: How Congressional Earmarks and Pork-Barrel Spending Undermine State and Local Decisionmaking
BG1266ES: How Congressional Earmarks and Pork-Barrel SpendingUndermine State and Local Decisionmaking
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BG1266ES: How Congressional Earmarks and Pork-Barrel SpendingUndermine State and Local Decisionmaking
Governments have long used the power to tax and spend to favorcertain constituencies with special benefits over and above what asystem based on a formula or need would provide.
Six months after the US Capitol fence was attacked by Reuters on January 6 By the hand of Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Workers began removing the last high-security fence around the U.S. Capitol on Friday, more than six months after supporters of former President Donald Trump carried out a deadly attack on the home of the U.S. Congress. At one point an eight-meter-high (2.4 m) black mesh fence surrounded several blocks of Capitol Hill, obstructing pedestrian and vehicle traffic. The remaining sections, which are just a set of white Capitol complexes, will take about three days to re...