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Earmarks are back What Pennsylvania and South Jersey lawmakers want money for

From urban to suburban to rural Pennsylvania, the spending requests from members of Congress read like an X-ray of gaps in the social safety net and differences in opportunity across the state.

Earmarks are back Here s what lawmakers want Congress to spend money on in Pa and South Jersey

Earmarks are back. Here’s what lawmakers want Congress to spend money on in Pa. and South Jersey Jonathan Tamari, The Philadelphia Inquirer © TYGER WILLIAMS/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS U.S. Rep. Dwight Evans (D., Pa.) requested a $1 million spending earmark for the Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium, which has provided health care and vaccinations in Philadelphia. WASHINGTON Earmarks are back. If lawmakers have their way, Congress may soon set aside $1 million for a sports and recreation facility in North Philadelphia and $500,000 to help people with mental health problems or addiction avoid incarceration in Bucks County. There’d be $5.5 million for a new police and fire facility near Scranton, $1.5 million to restore the Lansdowne Theater in Delaware County and spur economic development, and $1 million to increase the size of nursing classes at Lebanon Valley College outside Harrisburg.

Senate GOP gears up for voting reform fight

POLITICO Get the Huddle newsletter Sign Up By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or updates from POLITICO and you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service. You can unsubscribe at any time and you can contact us here. This sign-up form is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Presented by With Marianne LeVine and Zach Montellaro. HOW SENATE REPUBLICANS PLAN TO ATTACK S1: Expect some fireworks this a.m. at a Senate Rules Committee markup on Democrats’ signature elections and ethics reform bill. Senate Republicans are planning to brand the legislation a “politically motivated federal takeover of the election system that would make elections more chaotic and less secure,” according to a

Cheap hit piece on Lindemuths [letter]

On our primaries and worms (letter)

I was delighted to learn in a recent edition of LNP | LancasterOnline that the World Worm Charming Championships have been held since 1980, when Tom Shufflebotham charmed 511 worms out of the ground in 30 minutes. It occurred to me that this is not dissimilar to our primary election process, in which various “worms” appear out of the ground — only to go right back in when the contest is over. These “worms” ostensibly aerate our soil for the benefit of all but always in their hidden world, which we never see. My favorite worm is U.S. Rep. Lloyd Smucker. Like a worm, I believe he is concerned primarily with his own survival, which means that he is responsible only to his party’s leadership and has no responsibility to any of us or any of the other worms.

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