Many other Republican incumbents who campaigned on “bringing home the bacon” were also defeated Tuesday.
Republican lawmakers in the country’s tightest races are bragging about “bringing home the bacon” to a sour electorate.
Susan Collins’ loss to Troy Jackson in Maine shows how a senator’s spending clout can be overwhelmed when voters want a broader political change.
Voters in California went to the polls this week for a primary election that's the first step towards picking a permanent replacement for the late Sen.
After a 10-year hiatus, earmarks are coming back to the U.
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It makes perfect sense that Democrats have brought back the practice of congressional earmarking: Democratic leaders want to entrench their own power and enrich themselves.
For the federal government, the 2024 fiscal year started in October of last year, but this funding — at least a portion of it — didn’t make it through Congress and to the President’s desk until last .
As it crafted a budget proposal for next fiscal year, powerful leaders in the Massachusetts House packed the $58 billion spending plan with millions of dollars of earmarks for their own districts and .