I cannot recall such an obvious example of a member of Congress allocating money that went directly into his own pocket. It speaks to why members of Congress shouldn’t be using earmarks.
Barney Keller from the Club of Growth on the subject of a former Representative that gave an earmark to a small company who then hired him to lobby for them after he left Congress. Read more in the New York Times.
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