How a proposal becomes an earmark
By Bob Grant How a proposal becomes an earmark © tim tomkinson Attracting an earmark isn’t always as simple as shaking the right hands in the back halls of Congress. “I think it’s really a misunderstanding to think that this all ends with a Congressman sneaking language into some bill that then gets passed in the middle of the night as part of some omnibus appropriation and ‘boom’ it’s done,” says URI Pres


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Bob Grant
From 2017 to 2022, Bob Grant was Editor in Chief of The Scientist, where he started in 2007 as a Staff Writer.View full profile