{"id":699962,"date":"2010-03-17T19:39:15","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T23:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/liberty\/senate-rejects-earmarking-ban-by-wide-margin\/"},"modified":"2010-03-17T19:39:15","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T23:39:15","slug":"senate-rejects-earmarking-ban-by-wide-margin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/699962","title":{"rendered":"Senate Rejects Earmarking Ban By Wide Margin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pictures.directnews.co.uk\/liveimages\/US%2BSenate_1961_19675272_0_0_7019097_300.jpg?w=780\" alt=\"Senate rejects earmarking ban by wide margin\" align=\"right\" class=\"post_image\">The Senate has overwhelmingly rejected a conservative Republican measure that would have temporarily banned lawmakers from earmarking spending bills with provisions for state-sponsored projects, such as roads or grants for local governments, the Associated Press (AP) reports. The final vote was 68-29 in favor of disallowing the moratorium on earmarks. <\/p>\n<p>The Senate&#8217;s dismissal of prohibiting earmarks comes only a few days after the House implemented two separate, partisan bans on excess spending. Last week, Democratic House leaders announced an indefinite restriction on budget earmarks to for-profit entities.<\/p>\n<p>One day later, House Republicans trumped the Democrats&#8217; pledge by vowing to eliminate all earmarking for at least one full year. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Republicans took an important step toward showing the American people we&#8217;re serious about reform by adopting an immediate, unilateral ban on all earmarks,&quot; said House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio). <\/p>\n<p>&quot;But the more difficult battle lies ahead, and that&#8217;s stopping the spending spree in Washington that is saddling our children and grandchildren with trillions of dollars in debt,&quot; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, some Democrats have criticized the decision to temporarily prohibit earmarking, including Representative Mark Schauer (D-Mich.), who referred to the move a simple attempt to score &quot;cheap political points,&quot; according to <i>WHMI.com<\/i>.<br \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-1961-ID-19675272-ADNFCR\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?w=780\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate has overwhelmingly rejected a conservative Republican measure that would have temporarily banned lawmakers from earmarking spending bills with provisions for state-sponsored projects, such as roads or grants for local governments, the Associated Press (AP) reports. The final vote was 68-29 in favor of disallowing the moratorium on earmarks. The Senate&#8217;s dismissal of prohibiting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2670,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-699962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2W5I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2670"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}