Quantifying the Earmark Scene

By Paul Singer and Tory Newmyer
Roll Call Staff

February 25, 2008, 2:29 p.m.

Every club has its benefits. For members of the Appropriations committees, the benefits include the ability to dole out to themselves vastly larger sums of money for earmarked projects than to their rank-and-file brethren.

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