{"id":4571,"date":"2021-09-08T12:33:42","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T16:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=4571"},"modified":"2021-09-08T12:33:46","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T16:33:46","slug":"senate-congressionally-directed-spending-requests-reflect-partisan-divide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/senate-congressionally-directed-spending-requests-reflect-partisan-divide\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate congressionally directed spending requests reflect partisan divide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"553\" data-attachment-id=\"4572\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/senate-congressionally-directed-spending-requests-reflect-partisan-divide\/courser-kosar-senate-earmark-requests-09-08-2021\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Courser-Kosar-Senate-earmark-requests-09-08-2021.png\" data-orig-size=\"1000,553\" 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-Senate-earmark-requests-09-08-2021\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Courser-Kosar-Senate-earmark-requests-09-08-2021-300x166.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Courser-Kosar-Senate-earmark-requests-09-08-2021.png\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Courser-Kosar-Senate-earmark-requests-09-08-2021.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Courser-Kosar-Senate-earmark-requests-09-08-2021.png 1000w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Courser-Kosar-Senate-earmark-requests-09-08-2021-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Courser-Kosar-Senate-earmark-requests-09-08-2021-768x425.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Overall, 64 senators made 8,055 requests totaling $26.8 billion. Far fewer Republicans participated than Democrats. Only 16 GOP senators submitted requests, including a few senior members like Appropriations Ranking Member Richard Shelby (R-AL), Budget Ranking Member Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Minority Whip John Thune (R-SD). Only two Democrats, Jon Tester (D-MT) and Margaret Hassan (D-NH) declined to participate. This is in marked contrast to the House, where 122 of 212 (57.5 percent) GOP members requested earmarks&#8230;. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/politics-and-public-opinion\/senate-congressionally-directed-spending-requests-reflect-partisan-divide\/\">Read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overall, 64 senators made 8,055 requests totaling $26.8 billion. Far fewer Republicans participated than Democrats. Only 16 GOP senators submitted requests, including a few senior members like Appropriations Ranking Member Richard Shelby (R-AL), Budget Ranking Member Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Minority Whip John Thune (R-SD). Only two Democrats, Jon Tester (D-MT) and Margaret Hassan (D-NH) [&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-4571","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-1bJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4571","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=4571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4573,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4571\/revisions\/4573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}