Moratorium on Earmarks in 2007 Puts Pork Lovers in Academe on a Diet

By JEFFREY BRAINARD

Washington

College officials are bracing for some hard braking on one of their favorite gravy trains. The Democratic majority in Congress plans to increase oversight of earmarks, the noncompetitive grants that members steer to academic institutions, and to decrease sharply their number in the 2007 fiscal year.

The change...