Declares One of Washington’s “Swampiest” Practices Must End
The Hon. Jim Oberweis joined with a group of prominent conservatives on Friday in calling for Congress to end the practice of “earmarks.”
One of Washington’s “swampiest” practices, Members of Congress are able to insert funding for personally-favored projects into our nation’s spending bills as a condition for securing their vote for the bill’s final passage.
For ten years, Republicans in Congress banned the practice, until it was revived during leftist-Democrat Nancy Pelosi’s time as Speaker.
“I was honored to add my signature to a letter sent to every Member of Congress on Friday, calling for them to end the corrupt practice of agreeing to vote for bills in the national interest only after securing money for personal “pet projects” that are often not at all in the public interest,” declared Oberweis.
Good examples of past wasteful earmark spending includes such things as the “Universal Hip Hop Museum” and the “American LGBTQ+ Museum.” These are projects that would have “zero” chance of getting funded if they weren’t added to bills in backroom deals under coercive, Mafia-like tactics.
“This is a corrupt practice that squanders millions of taxpayer dollars on unworthy projects, and it is well-past time is stopped!” said GOP Congressional candidate Oberweis.
The letter, circulated by Americans Advancing Freedom, pointed out that earmarked funds from last year went toward such left-wing projects as “abortion centers, transgender indoctrination, radical climate activism, and entities engaged in crass antisemitism.”
“As a conservative Republican, I intend to make ending Congressional “earmarks” a core commitment of my campaign and of my service in Congress to southwest Florida,” declared Oberweis, a former Senate Republican Whip.
