Outgoing Senate Appropriations Committee Vice Chair Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) slipped $656 million worth of earmarks into the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill.
Outgoing Senate Appropriations Committee Vice Chair Richard Shelby slipped $656 million worth of earmarks into the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill.the $1.7 trillion, 4,155-page omnibus spending bill at 1:30 a.m. ET, giving lawmakers little time to digest the implications of the mammoth legislation.
While the bill may have many major reforms that are readily apparent, lawmakers also slipped hard-to-find earmarks into the bill. Many lawmakers, such as Shelby, are retiring and face few political repercussions for pushing a bill that contains many special interest carveouts and increases the deficit.
Shelby, as the longtime Senate Republican appropriations leader, had a particularly outsized influence in the drafting of the gargantuan legislation. Here are the$26 million for the Tuscaloosa National Airport Runway Extension$200 million for the Alabama State Port Authority Intermodal and Terminal Expansion$35 million for the Marion Military Institute$2.6 million for the Deepening Study for Tennessee—Tombigbee Waterway , AL and MS and Black Warrior and Tombigbee Rivers; U.S.
$50 million for the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, AL, for a permanent endowment fund to support the recruitment and retention of exceptional faculty in science and engineering.the FBI facilities at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, as the “Richard Shelby Center for Innovation and Advanced Traning.”last week that there are over 7,500 earmarks totaling $16 billion lawmakers are trying to slip into the omnibus spending bill.
Last year, Sen. Tommy Tuberville and 18 other Senate Republicans called earmarks an “inherently wasteful spending practice that is prone to serious abuse.”, “I’ll be gone. I’ll be cutting the grass and running errands for my wife. They’d start all over. I wouldn’t get anything,” referring to what might happen if the omnibus bill is not passed during the current lame duck session.
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