The Norman Transcript
By Reese Gorman
May 16, 2021
NORMAN — With earmarks officially making a return in the U.S House of Representatives after 10 years of non-existence, Oklahoma Congressman Tom Cole and other representatives are being given an opportunity to propose spending that will go toward improving their districts and state.
Earmarks — or as the current House Appropriations Committee chair Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-CT, called them, Community Project Funding — are a way for lawmakers to attach projects for their state and districts to spending bills written by the Appropriations Committee, which then directs money specifically to those projects.
House Republicans voted to bring back earmarks in mid-March launching a bipartisan support for local spending in the lower chamber.
“Members want Congress to help their communities, particularly now as the pandemic exposed so many inequalities and needs,” DeLauro said in a statement. “Community Project Funding will allow members to put their deep, first-hand understanding of the needs of their communities to work to help the people we represent.”
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