{"id":4456,"date":"2021-03-15T08:54:04","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T12:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=4456"},"modified":"2021-03-15T08:54:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T12:54:09","slug":"reviving-earmarks-the-right-way-some-advice-for-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/reviving-earmarks-the-right-way-some-advice-for-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Reviving earmarks the right way: Some advice for Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"703\" height=\"440\" data-attachment-id=\"4386\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/restoring-the-power-of-the-purse-earmarks-and-re-empowering-legislators-to-deliver-local-benefits\/courser-kosar-restoring-the-power-of-the-purse\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Courser-Kosar-Restoring-the-Power-of-the-Purse.png\" data-orig-size=\"703,440\" 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=\"Courser-Kosar-Restoring-the-Power-of-the-Purse\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Courser-Kosar-Restoring-the-Power-of-the-Purse-300x188.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Courser-Kosar-Restoring-the-Power-of-the-Purse.png\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Courser-Kosar-Restoring-the-Power-of-the-Purse.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Courser-Kosar-Restoring-the-Power-of-the-Purse.png 703w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Courser-Kosar-Restoring-the-Power-of-the-Purse-300x188.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 703px) 100vw, 703px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Democratic leadership in Congress is currently making fast moves toward reimplementing earmarks after a 10-year moratorium. This is a very positive development to re-empower legislators to direct needed federal resources to local and regional needs. As we\u2019ve written in our recent AEI report, the earmark moratorium failed: It did not reduce discretionary spending, it increased congressional polarization, and it undermined coalition building. It also shifted more power over discretionary spending to executive agencies. All of which is why top experts on Congress supported scrapping the moratorium&#8230;. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/politics-and-public-opinion\/reviving-earmarks-the-right-way-some-advice-for-congress\/\">Read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic leadership in Congress is currently making fast moves toward reimplementing earmarks after a 10-year moratorium. This is a very positive development to re-empower legislators to direct needed federal resources to local and regional needs. As we\u2019ve written in our recent AEI report, the earmark moratorium failed: It did not reduce discretionary spending, it [&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],"tags":[227],"class_list":["post-4456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","tag-aei-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-19S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4456","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=4456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4457,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4456\/revisions\/4457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}