Earmarks is line item appropriations. Now, they got abused because we were building bridges to nowhere and they were being used to buy votes. But they were. The dollars were being appropriated. The way Congress has to appropriate dollars now is that we appropriate a budget to the agency, and each year, by the way, the agencies automatically increase their budget. and we give them a bundle of money, and then we ask them pretty please, can you spend it this way, this way, this way, or this way? (1:02:20–1:02:31)
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