Mar 10
House Leaders Bar Earmarks to For-Profit Companies
“The ban is the most aggressive step yet in a three-year effort in Congress to curb abuses in the awarding of earmarks, which direct that federal money be spent in a very specific way. The move follows criminal investigations, ethics inquiries and political embarassment linked to the use of earmarks.”
Capital!
Read the article here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/11/us/politics/11earmark.html?8au&emc=au
