House GOP Leaders To Ask Conference For Immediate Moratorium On Earmarks

House GOP leaders will call for an immediate moratorium on earmarks at a Thursday conference meeting.

In a joint statement, Republican leaders said the earmark process had become a symbol of “a broken Washington” and that the time had come for House Republicans to adopt an immediate, unilateral ban on earmarks.

The move comes after the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday moved to no longer accept earmarks that go to for-profit companies.

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