November 21, 2003

Partisan Dispute in Congress May Lead to Leaner Pork-Barrel Spending

By JEFFREY BRAINARD

Some colleges may have a harder time next year getting earmarks, the directed grants provided by members of Congress for favored constituents. The Republican chairman of a powerful appropriations subcommittee in the U.S. House of Representatives has vowed not to allow any earmarks in a key spending bill for Democrats who voted against it.

The dispute arose because, earlier this year, 198 Democratic members of the House voted as a party against the House version of the bill, which would

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