claim: congress used earmarks "for more than 200 years."
author: harry reid
evidence_1: nov 8, 2015 ... cagw has more than 1 million members and supporters nationwide. since 1984,  cagw ... even went so far as to say that the country has been using earmarks “… for more than 200 years.”1 ... revenues; but. 1 tim ryan, “harry reid says  congress used earmarks for 200 years,” politifact, may 13, 2014,.
evidence_2: may 9, 2014 ... for more than 200 years, earmarks existed as a way for members of congress to  bring money home to their constituents. ... since the ban never eliminated  spending, it sent the dollars that used to be earmarked for local projects back to  the federal bureaucracy, to be spent at the relative whim of a federal ...
evidence_3: may 23, 2014 ... the process took a lot more work in today's post-earmark era, where members of  congress can no longer quietly slip pet projects into legislation without  consulting anyone. nevada's ... congress: the way it used to be ... after all, that's  the way things have been done for more than 200 years in washington.
evidence_4: nov 17, 2016 ... then-speaker john a. boehner was a lifelong opponent of earmarking and  pushed the prohibition as an example to voters that the gop was serious ... “ keep in mind that's what the country has done for more than 200 years, except for  the brief period of time in recent years that we haven't done these.
evidence_5: oct 20, 2015 ... that's a substantial decline from more than 1,700 earmarks totaling $10.3 billion  that the group found in 2010, the last year before the earmark ban took effect. but  a deeper look also shows the ban has changed the ways lawmakers get projects  to their home districts. because it is more difficult for congress ...