To Eliminate Earmarks, Coburn Offers To Authorize EPA's Water Funds

Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), a staunch opponent of funding earmarks for specific projects, is seeking to eliminate millions of dollars earmarked for EPA water infrastructure projects while reauthorizing the agency clean water and drinking water state revolving loan fund (SRF) programs that distribute the funds via fixed formula to the projects. Coburn Dec. 15 failed in his bid to attach an amendment laying out this approach to the Senate version of pending tax legislation, but Coburn is expected to look...