Partial Ban on Earmarks is Still Too Tempting for Some Members

According to an April 5, 2010, Roll Call article, House appropriator Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) withdrew one of her fiscal year (FY) 2011 earmark requests after the newspaper inquired about it.  Taxpayers may remember House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey’s (D-Wis.) announcement on March 10, 2010, that the House Appropriations Committee would reject all earmark [...]