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The return of earmarks (pork).

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Isaac Saul

International News, Politics, Election, Nonpartisan, Us Politics, Local News, News Commentary, Biden, Us Senate, Independent, Us News, Congress, Trump, News, Us House Of Representatives

4.8672 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Earmarks are back. Sometimes called member-directed spending, pork, pork-barrelling, bacon, fat, or fluff, earmarks are funding for projects that get inserted into legislation at the request of specific members of Congress, usually in an effort to win over that member's vote (think of it as politically acceptable coercion, even bribery).

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0:41.1

This is Tangle podcast, a place where you get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking.

1:02.3

Without all that hysterical nonsense you find everywhere else.

1:05.5

I am your host, Isaac Saul. And on today's podcast, we are going to be talking about earmarks. Pork, the pork

1:12.9

barreling, the special favors members of Congress pass around when they pass legislation. As always,

1:19.9

though, before we jump in, we'll start with some quick hits. And today, unfortunately, a correction.

1:32.6

Thank you. unfortunately, a correction. So first up, before we get to the quick hits, I do need to make a correction from yesterday's

1:40.1

podcast and newsletter.

1:42.8

I don't know how this happened exactly, but yesterday I referenced the

1:46.5

stage Jussie Smollett attack that happened, quote, in the summer of the 2020 George Floyd

1:52.2

protests. This is basically all wrong. The stage attack happened in the winter notoriously,

1:58.1

and in January of 2019, though it did lead to a lot of skepticism around

2:03.0

other alleged racially motivated attacks that came in the first year or two afterward.

2:07.9

And I think the whole incident in a lot of ways kind of got tied into the George Floyd protests

2:12.8

and the racial justice movement from many critics.

2:16.1

So I don't know what happened to my brain. Time is a

2:19.2

flat circle and I might be broken after the last two years of news coverage and COVID and

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