AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Earmarks and the federal budget.(Inside Track)
The same day tic signed into law the omnibus spending bill containing $7.7 billion in earmarked projects, President Barack Obama favorably cited the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act as an example of legislation devoid of any congressional earmarks. But the earmark-less $787 billion "stimulus" plan that he championed is not devoid of new spending, which accounts for more than two-thirds of the bill's total cost.
There were also no earmarks in the congressional measure authorizing a second round of $350 billion in TARP funding to bail out major financial institutions. Like the stimulus legislation, a dearth of earmarks did not mean a dearth of spending.
Earmarks are generally associated with "pork-barrel" spending. Appropriations that are earmarked can be wasteful, excessive, and unconstitutional--and when they are, Congress should vote against the spending. However, as the stimulus and TARP legislation surely demonstrate, appropriations that are not earmarked can also be wasteful, excessive, and unconstitutional.
When Congress appropriates money in a huge lump sum with out any earmarks, ...
- Statement on Signing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
- Magazine article from: Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents Obama, Barack H February 17, 2009 700+ words
...H.R. 1, the "American Recovery and Reinvestment...legislation includes no earmarks. An oversight board...Signings and Vetoes : American Recovery and Reinvestment...Legislation, enacted : American Recovery and Reinvestment...
- Education's shot in the arm: the federal stimulus plan will provide a healthy...
- Magazine article from: District Administration Butler, Kevin April 1, 2009 700+ words
...toward critical personnel, he says. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), which...Districts receiving a portion of that must earmark 85 percent of those funds by Sept...abilities in Education Act. Districts must earmark all such special education funding by...
- Remarks on Government Spending and Earmark Reform
- Magazine article from: Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents Obama, Barack H March 11, 2009 700+ words
...we passed an American Recovery and Reinvestment...customary congressional earmarks, the practice...public purpose. Earmarks that Members do...themselves. Each earmark must be open to...taxpayer. Next, any earmark for a for-profit...The awarding of earmarks to private ...
- CCAGW Urges Obama to Preserve Executive Order on Earmarks.
- Press release article from: Business Wire February 23, 2009 700+ words
...Government Spending on Wasteful Earmarks,' must be strictly enforced...lobbyists will be seeking earmarks through surreptitious contacts...Implementing Guidance for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009...does not address potential earmarks. "E.O. No. 13457 was...
- DeLauro urges seeking earmarks for area brownfields
- Newspaper article from: New Haven Register Mark Brackenbury September 17, 2009 700+ words
...are contaminated sites that are developable after cleanup. The Valley Council of Governments is the fiduciary for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds, federal stimulus money, that will be directed toward local shovel-ready projects to clean...
- President's budget earmarks $634 billion for health reform.(NEWS)
- Magazine article from: Family Practice News Schneider, Mary Ellen March 15, 2009 700+ words
...includes more than $6 billion in cancer research funding at the National Institutes of Health, on top of the $10 billion in NIH funding that was included as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, enacted earlier this month.
- U.S. Department of Energy Earmarks $5 Million for ComEd Smart Grid Solar Pilot.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire October 13, 2009 700+ words
...PRNewswire/ -- Last week the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced that ComEd could receive up to $5 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funding for the utility's Smart Grid solar pilot. This one-year project would examine...
- United States: DOE Earmarks $85M for Advanced Biofuels.
- News wire article from: TendersInfo July 18, 2009 700+ words
...aimed at spurring collaboration between public- and private-sector researchers, comes as part of the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which President Obama signed in February. DOE plans to select two or three partnerships and fund...
