FOLLOWING UP ON EARMARKS.

FOLLOWING UP ON EARMARKS. I previously posted on how an experienced civil servant told me that his agency had to do detective work to identify earmarks referred to in only four or five words in a conference report. Now the Office of Management and Budget has instructed federal agencies to honor only earmarks contained in statutes, thereby supporting Congressional actions which provided that earmarks in 2006 reports were to have no legal effect.

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