The first thing the GOP did after they took control of the U.S. House - before the new Congress was even sworn in - they held a secret vote on earmarks.
Last December, 158 GOP members of Congress voted to include earmarks in the year-end omnibus spending bill.
Those 158 secret-voting members caused $16,012,272,565 of your tax dollars to be spent on 7,509 earmarks.
Not only did those 158 members adopt earmarks, the Republicans spent more of your tax dollars than their Democratic earmarking colleagues.
She chairs the Appropriations Committee that approves every one of those earmarks.
If every member of Congress earmarked the same for each citizen in their state as Sen. Collins did, the total amount of earmarks would be $220 billion!
Senator Leahy got his name on buildings after earmarking your tax dollars and every dime of it was borrowed against our national debt.
https://www.openthebooks.com/the-wall-street-journal-earmarks/
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