Analysis: Shutdowns and legislative logjams stir appreciation for the once-hated earmark
By Paul Kane Paul Kane Senior congressional correspondent and columnist Email Bio Follow May 4 at 6:00 AM After an initial burst of optimism, most lawmakers quickly grew skeptical of the $2 trillion infrastructure framework that President Trump and congressional Democrats proposed this past Tuesday.
So far this push has run into opposition from senior Republicans, who led the effort a decade ago to ban earmarks as both wasteful spending and part of a corrupt pay-to-play culture with lobbyists. With almost 1,900 earmarks, Shuster steamrolled conservative opponents who thought his proposal was bloated. In 1998, he won a big bipartisan vote for a six-year highway bill: 143 Republicans and 153 Democrats.
In 2006, Democrats ran on a “drain the swamp” message and, in the majority in 2007, they created a transparent process: Lawmakers had to disclose their earmark requests and certify there were no conflicts of interest.
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