This earmark dreck keeps getting worse.

From the Sunlight Foundation:

A source on the Hill emails about the just released conference report for Defense Appropriations, saying that it “contains a massive number of earmarks – 2,049 to be exact.” I’m going to round the figures somewhat (they were calculated on the fly) but total cost of the earmarks is $4.9 billion. Included are 24 new earmarks costing about $59 million that were “airdropped” into the conference report. “These earmarks were considered by neither the House nor the Senate and were immaculately conceived in the conference report,” he says.

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