This Week in Passenger Transport
March 3, 2008
In her remarks Feb. 24 before the National Governors Association’s Winter Meeting in Washington, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary E. Peters urged the nation’s governors to contact their members of Congress about discontinuing what she termed costly earmarks in federal transportation spending bills.
According to Peters, the most recent transportation spending bill authorized by Congress includes 6,300 earmarks totaling $23 billion. Earmarks typically authorize spending for a specific project, usually at the request of a member of Congress; they can be controversial because they may not go through the usual House or Senate review process. An earmark that appears in statutory language requires the funding be spent on the identified project.
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