Congress has supposedly banned “earmarks,” the provisions in appropriations bills directing ... in the 1,700 pages of the fiscal year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act was a clause ...

The one subject to the most scrutiny is “discretionary” spending, which is the basis of the annual appropriations process. This includes national ... Congress banned earmarks in 2011 in ...

Congress temporarily banned earmarks in 2011, forbidding legislators from slipping their pet projects into national appropriations bills. Earmarking is similar to pork spending, in that both ...

House Appropriations Chair Kay Granger said the package “funds our highest national security priorities ... I predicted that it would contain hundreds of earmarks. It does.

Ann Bollin, R-Brighton Township, the new chair of the House Appropriations Committee ... spending initiatives,” otherwise known as earmarks. “Taxpayers deserve to know exactly where their ...

Four congressional Democrats in senior positions on appropriations panels wrote to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ...

Whitmer vetoed some proposed earmarks in the 2024-25 budget. "This is just really a great opportunity to bring more transparency, accountability," House Appropriations Committee Chair Ann Bollin ...

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), the chair of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, called a new memo from the White House budget office freezing the disbursement of federal loans and grants ...

Editor's note: Follow Ohio State vs. Notre Dame live updates, scores and highlights from the national championship game. We started with 12. Was that too many? That's yet to be seen, but after ...

The proposed rescue package comes after crisis talks between AMSA CEO Kobus Verster and representatives of the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (DTIC) and the National Treasury.

U.S. Representative Chuck Fleischmann, current chairman of Energy and Water Appropriations ... are essential to strengthening our energy and national security and powering our economy through ...

TOKYO -- Japan is preparing 160 billion yen ($1 billion) in government support for its chip design industry, moving further upstream from its early focus on production in a bid to play catch-up ...