Three years after the late night vote, the controversial earmark has led to a state investigation into potential embezzlement ...

Earmark Politics. By Chad Pergram , Fox News. Published October 3, 2012 2 ... There was the "Bridge to Nowhere," a dubious $200 million earmark to help construct a bridge between Ketchikan, ...

Gov. Henry McMaster will have additional oversight over South Carolina's budget process after the eliminating of budget ...

State election regulators on Wednesday closed the books on one of its longest-lingering investigations, finally dismissing a 2014 case involving former two-term state Sen. Ted Kennedy Jr. and nearly ...

With another chance to bring home the political bacon, ... Many Republicans, who had led the way in exposing earmark corruption 20 years ago and banned them all of last decade, ...

House Republicans have stuffed the bills that fund the federal government with more than $4.5 billion worth of narrow projects in their districts, commonly known as earmarks.

Sessions suggested he could be open to a reformed earmark process that looks at the value of each project, among other factors. He said the process would have to be transparent, based on merit ...

Earmark spending is emblematic of each of these problems. Earmarks Often Go to Special Interest Groups. Lobbying activity and related corruption scandals were a significant factor behind the ...

Confusion reigned Wednesday after an earmark for a Philadelphia LGBTQ center was pulled from a spending bill making its way through Congress. Democratic Pennsylvania Sens. John Fetterman and Bob Ca… ...

Politics House Speaker slammed for ‘stealth amendment’ funding $25 million parking garage in his hometown House Speaker Ron Mariano’s earmark for a parking garage made up $25 million of a ...

6 Outrageous Political Earmarks. By. Mary Brown. Full Bio. Mary Brown, ... Former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens is tied to, by far, the most famous earmark—the Gravina Island Bridge or, ...

Another earmark in the House spending bills would direct $1 million toward the nonprofit group After the Storm, which has been working to help victims recover from the June 2021 storms in Metro ...