Earlier this year, through a new house resolution, earmarks and their sponsors were to be identified in spending, tax, and authorization bills. That way they could be called out on the House floor and contested. Remember now, it only required earmarks to be identified, not eliminated. It was a part of the Democrats’ bevy of midterm campaign promises that vowed to “drain the swamp” of the “culture of corruption” on Capitol Hill and create “the most ethical Congress in history.”