Earmark Ban Sparks a Spat

Waters Takes Issue With Obey

• By Steven T. Dennis and Tory Newmyer
• Roll Call Staff
• June 15, 2009, Midnight

A plan by House Appropriations Chairman David Obey (D-Wis.) to ban “monuments to me” in this year’s appropriations bills has been sharply criticized behind closed doors by a senior Democrat who wants to direct $1 million to an employment center in her district bearing her name.