Should Congress bring back earmarks? Rep. Ben McAdams says that’s a bridge too far.

Washington • Some members of Congress are advocating a plan to bring back earmarks, the pet project funding inserted into budgets by members of Congress in years past that became a symbol of pork barrel spending and the subject of criminal charges.The new push comes with more transparency on the potential earmarks — renamed as community project funding — as well as guidelines to prevent the scandals that prompted a ban on the line-item spending, a point advocates of the proposal