Alabama Pork King Retiring 'Senator Richard Shelby' Brings Home the Bacon

Sen. Shelby earmarks $656 million in federal government funding bill

According to Bloomberg Government, Shelby has placed $656 million in earmarks...Shelby stands to take home the most earmarked funds for the second year in a row to Alabama, the report said. The earmark process was banned in Washington, D.C. for a decade but was brought back last year. U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) and 18 other Republican Senators last year called earmarks "an inherently wasteful spending practice that is prone to serious abuse."

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