Earmarks are
A) special provisions in appropriations bills directed at specific organizations.
B) rarely used by members of Congress.
C) mostly in non-defense appropriations bills.
D) only hurtful to legislators' reelection chances.
E) spending bills that typically cost taxpayers a few million dollars

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Earmarks are special provisions in appropriations bills that direct specific amounts of money to be spent on specific organizations, often in a legislator's home state or district. They are sometimes referred to as pork barrel spending.

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