Tammy Baldwin
-The Hagstrom Report
Senate Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee Chairwoman Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., said today she will open up the fiscal year 2022 agriculture appropriations process to “congressionally directed spending,” the term that Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., used Monday when he announced that the committee would use what most people call earmarks.
“We are looking at some potential changes to our process because of the return of congressionally directed spending,” Baldwin, who became chairwoman when the Democrats took over the Senate in January, told the North American Agricultural Journalists.
“I think that will be the main change between this coming year and prior years. There has been discussion at the staff level and at the member level on how it would be appropriate to move forward,” she said.