Once reviled as “pork,” discretionary spending provisions are once again seen as strengthening a broken Congress.
Kevin R. Kosar
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Kevin R. Kosar is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and the co-editor of Congress Overwhelmed: Congressional Capacity and Prospects for Reform (2020). He is the coauthor with Zachary Courser of the recent earmarks study, “Restoring the Power of the Purse.”