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Aidan Quigley

House GOP appropriators unveil tighter earmark rules - Roll Call

Clarified 11:53 am | House Republican appropriators have banned earmarks from the Labor-HHS-Education, Financial Services and Defense bills and put fresh restrictions on “community project funding” in new rules regulating the process on that side of the Capitol.

House Appropriations Chairwoman Kay Granger, R-Texas, announced the new rules Tuesday night. Earmark spending will be capped at 0.5 percent of total discretionary spending in the House’s fiscal 2024 bills, and members will have to submit a written statement describing the “federal nexus” for their earmark requests.

The fiscal 2023 omnibus included $15.3 billion in earmarks, which accounted for around 0.9 percent of discretionary spending.

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