a program on education and politics setting the stage for the 2021 elections and 2022 electionsti featuring congresswoman rosa delauro, and anna greenberg. at 7 p.m., navigating international hostage situations, a collaboration with the richardson center for governor bill richardson will join us. we hope you gote to www.i/o pga cornell or just google cornell politics and you can register. during this evening a few distance guess. former carson john barrow from georgia, martin frost from texas, former chairman of the state republican committee, tompkins county legislator martha robertson, cornell is located in the county.nt the president of the afl-cio richard trumka, great keiser, chair of the executive committee of the cornell board of trustees and a member of the board of trustees becky robertson. and now to our guests this evening. my co-moderated ass always is chris reback, the host of chris reback conversation and publishers chris reback newsletter which i made up my for
welcome, everybody to the institute of politics and prose at cornell university s book and author series sponsored by bernard schwartz. tonight, madame speaker nancy my pelosi and the lessons of power written by susan page. we ve got a nice conversation with susan interviewed by chris and myself and then we will throw it open to your own questions and about 7:35. want to welcome our friends at c-span who are with us this evening and for those of you unfamiliar with the institute of politics and global affairs we have one simple mission and that is too deep in the discourse and raise understanding on complex issues in a bipartisan way. before we begin, a little bit of housekeeping if i may. may 12th at 7:00 we feature a program on education politics, setting the stage for the 2021 elections and the 2022 featuring congresswoman rosa delauro and anna greenberg. at 7 p.m. navigating international hostage situations, a collaboration with the richard simmons center where governor r
a.m. eastern on c-span and c-span.org, or listen live on the c-span radio app. for many years, earmarks was a regular topic on washington journal. it has not been for a while. it is coming back. we re joined by steve ellis, president of taxpayers for common sense and mark strand, president of the congressional institute, to help us understand what earmarks are, why they went away and why they are coming back? guest: thank you for having us. host: steve ellis. it feels like, if this were espn, and we are talking football, it is the t formation. earmarks have not been a topic of discussion in the halls of congress for a decade. what is a congressional your mark? earmark? guest: it is a line item provision inserted into legislation going to a specific project by a lawmaker. it could be a road project. in some cases, it was a teapot museum in sparta, north carolina. it could be the bridge to nowhere. that project in alaska. a provision into legislation. it was something very pr
espn, and we are talking football, it is the t formation. earmarks have not been a topic of discussion in the halls of congress for a decade. what is a congressional your mark? earmark? guest: it is a line item provision inserted into legislation going to a specific project by a lawmaker. it could be a road project. in some cases, it was a teapot museum in sparta, north carolina. it could be the bridge to nowhere. that project in alaska. a provision into legislation. it was something very prevalent in our history until starting in the 90 s, it exploded through the mid-2000 s and after some reforms, republicans took control in 2011, decided to enact a moratorium. host: was there a bubbling up of public animus toward this spending, these congressional earmarks? people said somehow this is pork spending. guest: it is always referred to in the third person. it is never pork in your own district because you are for your constituents. some projects were seen as excessive. randy
book. watch book tv this weekend on c-span two c-span2. earmarks was a regular topic on washington journal. it has not been for a while. it is coming back. we re joined by steve ellis, president of taxpayers for common sense and mark strand, president of the congressional institute, to help us understand what earmarks are, why they went away and why they are coming back? guest: thank you for having us. host: steve ellis. it feels like, if this were espn, and we are talking football, it is the t formation. earmarks have not been a topic of discussion in the halls of congress for a decade. what is a congressional your mark? earmark? guest: it is a line item provision inserted into legislation going to a specific project by a lawmaker. it could be a road project. in some cases, it was a teapot museum in sparta, north carolina. it could be the bridge to nowhere. that project in alaska. a provision into legislation. it was something very prevalent in our history until starting