On February 25, the House Appropriations Committee opened its portal for members of Congress to submit Community Project Funding requests for ...

Problem definition: Charities face tension when deciding whether to earmark donations, that is, allow donors to restrict the use of their donations for a specific purpose. Research shows that ...

Özer, Özalp; Urrea, Gloria; Villa, Sebastián. To Earmark or to Nonearmark? The Role of Control, Transparency, and Warm-Glow. M&SOM: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. Mar/Apr2024, Vol. 26 ...

troubled children, wrote a letter to Ron Wyden, the Democratic senator who represents the charity’s home state. Several months later, the organization received $100,000. The money came after Mr. Wyden ...

but many groups fail to grasp the finer points of lobbying or the types of projects that lawmakers find attractive, lobbyists and experienced fund raisers say. Among the key elements that tend to make ...

WASHINGTON – A group opposed to wasteful government spending and a handful of U.S. House Republicans warned at a Wednesday press event that project-specific spending known as earmarks was contributing ...

A $1 million earmark that would fund the renovation of an LGBTQ community center in Pennsylvania was stripped from the six-bill spending package under consideration this week after backlash from ...

An internecine debate on the future of the current earmark moratorium is heating up in the Senate and House GOP conferences, and in the process an obscure legislative tool is slowly coming out of the ...

Hodes, a junior member who is running in a tight race for Senate, is putting pressure on Democratic leaders by circulating a letter among colleagues asking them to support a ban on all earmarks and ...

The Department of Transportation is refusing to move forward on an earmark backed by Rep. Paul Kanjorski (Pa.), the rare House Democrat facing a tough reelection this fall. Transportation (DoT) is ...