Sams admitted last week that the spending violated several of his agency’s norms in sending the money to the powerful Democrat.
Mrs. Pelosi’s district also received $63.6 million from the
for Alcatraz, a former prison on an island, and $102.3 million for the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park.for fiscal 2023 to work on its backlogged maintenance projects. The $365.9 million sent to Mrs. Pelosi’s district works out to 24% of the total. If the $1.5 billion had been divided evenly among all 435 congressional districts, Mrs. Pelosi would have walked away with less than $3.5 million.Congress authorizes the spending and can specify exactly where money should go. Those are usually called “earmarks.”
More often, Congress authorizes pots of money for a purpose and then relies on an agency to go through a fair process before distributing the funds.Mr. Sams acknowledged that the park service didn’t follow the standards for maintenance money, which Congress laid out in the Great American Outdoors Act when it sent the money to Mrs. Pelosi’s district.
Mrs. Pelosi announced the funding in a press release from her congressional office in February. The folks who run the site merely copied her press release. Mr. Sams acknowledged that theHe said he couldn’t think of another park service press release that contained “partisan attacks originally released by a congressional office.”Mr. Westerman countered that the
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