https://pdblack.twistedpair.net/index.php?disp=comments en-US http://backend.userland.com/rss 60 Sat, 13 Nov 2010 22:56:35 +0000 Aunt Bann [Visitor] c32384@https://pdblack.twistedpair.net/ <p>As I understand earmarks, from my college courses (years ago, of course!), they can be put into a bill of any kind (but usually basically one calling for money in any state and for any purpose) by any of the people who have an interest in getting money to spend in their personal districts/areas of the country. They get buried in the wordage of the bill, and since most of those bills deal with getting money for some &#8220;pet project", they aren&#8217;t read very carefully, anyway. So the earmarks get buried somewhere in the bill, and nobody cares, so they vote for the bill, and all the earmarked items are approved, also. Many earmarks are included in the usual once-a-year budget.</p> As I understand earmarks, from my college courses (years ago, of course!), they can be put into a bill of any kind (but usually basically one calling for money in any state and for any purpose) by any of the people who have an interest in getting money to spend in their personal districts/areas of the country. They get buried in the wordage of the bill, and since most of those bills deal with getting money for some “pet project", they aren’t read very carefully, anyway. So the earmarks get buried somewhere in the bill, and nobody cares, so they vote for the bill, and all the earmarked items are approved, also. Many earmarks are included in the usual once-a-year budget.

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