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Moira Campion McConaghy

Moira Campion McConaghy is an alumna of both chambers of Congress, having worked in legislative policy positions for members including Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH). Contact her at moiramcconaghy@gmail.com. Follow: @moiramcconaghy
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Bring Back Congressional Earmarks – But the Right Way

by Moira Campion McConaghy

Over the past few election cycles, Congressional earmarks have come to epitomize the worst in “pork-barrel” spending and government waste. Thanks to a combination of bad optics, wasteful behavior, and opaque practices, congressionally-directed appropriations spending justifiably became the target of popular and political vitriol. Take, for example, the infamous “Bridge to Nowhere,” where the late […]