{"id":4298,"date":"2020-09-25T10:33:08","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T14:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=4298"},"modified":"2020-09-25T10:33:14","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T14:33:14","slug":"might-congress-enact-a-compromise-to-end-earmarks-as-we-know-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/might-congress-enact-a-compromise-to-end-earmarks-as-we-know-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Might Congress enact a compromise to end earmarks as we know them?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" data-attachment-id=\"3998\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/permanent-appropriations-might-they-improve-the-budget-process\/budget-us-government-06-2019\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Budget-US-Government-06-2019.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1024,683\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Budget-US-Government 06-2019\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Budget-US-Government-06-2019-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Budget-US-Government-06-2019-1024x683.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Budget-US-Government-06-2019-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3998\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Budget-US-Government-06-2019.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Budget-US-Government-06-2019-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Budget-US-Government-06-2019-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the past several years, there have been murmurings on Capitol Hill about possibly bringing back earmarks. Now it appears possible that the scandal-tainted earmarks of old may never come back. This week, a congressional committee advocated establishing a \u201ccommunity-focused grant program.\u201d It would authorize up to 1 percent of discretionary spending to be directed by legislators toward projects in their home states&#8230;.(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/politics-and-public-opinion\/legislature\/might-congress-enact-a-compromise-to-end-earmarks-as-we-know-them\/\">Read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past several years, there have been murmurings on Capitol Hill about possibly bringing back earmarks. Now it appears possible that the scandal-tainted earmarks of old may never come back. This week, a congressional committee advocated establishing a \u201ccommunity-focused grant program.\u201d It would authorize up to 1 percent of discretionary spending to be directed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[165,160],"tags":[227],"class_list":["post-4298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-congress","tag-aei-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-17k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4299,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4298\/revisions\/4299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}