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Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Politics Kyl: It's Not an Earmark If You Don't Call It an Earmark
Posted by Jim Nintzel on Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 4:38 PM
The Associated Press reports:
Senate Republicans' ban on earmarks—money included in a bill by a lawmaker to benefit a home-state project or interest—was short-lived.Only three days after GOP senators and senators-elect renounced earmarks, Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl, the No. 2 Senate Republican, got himself a whopping $200 million to settle an Arizona Indian tribe's water rights claim against the government.
Kyl slipped the measure into a larger bill sought by President Barack Obama and passed by the Senate on Friday to settle claims by black farmers and American Indians against the federal government. Kyl's office insists the measure is not an earmark, and the House didn't deem it one when it considered a version earlier this year.
But it meets the know-it-when-you-see-it test, critics say. Under Senate rules, an earmark is a spending item inserted "primarily at the request of a senator" that goes "to an entity, or (is) targeted to a specific state."
Can we please stop talking about earmarks as if all of them are bad now?
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