WASHINGTON—Congress imposed a moratorium on earmarks on itself in 2011, but for the seventh consecutive year, an anti-government-waste and -fraud nonprofit exposed on June 13 almost 300 new examples of the secret spending.
“The 2019 Congressional Pig Book reveals that Washington has the pork-barrel fever, and their only prescription is more earmarks,” Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) President Thomas Schatz said in a statement accompanying the public release of the compilation.
