{"id":4432,"date":"2021-03-01T08:26:14","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T13:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=4432"},"modified":"2021-03-01T08:26:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T13:26:17","slug":"democrats-ditch-10-year-old-earmark-freeze-putting-gop-in-a-tough-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/democrats-ditch-10-year-old-earmark-freeze-putting-gop-in-a-tough-position\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats ditch 10-year-old earmark freeze, putting GOP in a tough position"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"760\" height=\"472\" data-attachment-id=\"4434\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/democrats-ditch-10-year-old-earmark-freeze-putting-gop-in-a-tough-position\/wamo-earmarks\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/WaMo-earmarks.png\" data-orig-size=\"760,472\" 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=\"WaMo-earmarks\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/WaMo-earmarks-300x186.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/WaMo-earmarks.png\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/WaMo-earmarks.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/WaMo-earmarks.png 760w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/WaMo-earmarks-300x186.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><figcaption>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonmonthly.com\/2021\/03\/01\/democrats-ditch-10-year-old-earmark-freeze-putting-gop-in-a-tough-position\/\">Washingtn Monthly<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is official: Earmarks are returning to Congress. The House Appropriations Committee will sooCon unveil the new process by which individual legislators can direct spending to projects in their home districts. Both parties swore off earmarking a decade ago after each had members get caught in scandals, some going so far as to barter earmarks for campaign contributions and lavish trips&#8230;. (Read more)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is official: Earmarks are returning to Congress. The House Appropriations Committee will sooCon unveil the new process by which individual legislators can direct spending to projects in their home districts. Both parties swore off earmarking a decade ago after each had members get caught in scandals, some going so far as to barter earmarks [&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":[171],"class_list":["post-4432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-congress","tag-washington-monthly"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-19u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4432","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=4432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4435,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4432\/revisions\/4435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}