Roll Call has a breakdown of the differences between federal agencies and accounts that can be earmarked in the House and Senate bills:
Agriculture: Unlike the House, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service’s salaries and expenses and Natural Resources Conservation Service accounts, including watershed protection and flood prevention programs, would be open for earmarking in Senate bills, as well as watershed flood prevention operations. The House however would allow Agricultural Research Service buildings and facilities grants, which the Senate would not. The only account the two subcommittees have in common for earmarking is rural community facilities grants.
Commerce-Justice-Science: Similar earmarked accounts with the exception of the Senate allowing National Institute of Standards and Technology research facilities construction grants.
Defense: None allowed in the Senate, while the House is allowing earmarks in Research, Development, Test and Evaluation accounts across the military services.
Energy-Water: Both would allow earmarking within Army Corps of Engineers and Bureau of Reclamation accounts, while the Senate would add several Energy Department offices as well.
Financial Services: Unlike the House, the Senate will allow earmarks in the National Archives and Records Administration and General Services Administration federal buildings acquisition and construction.
Homeland Security: House appropriators will allow earmarks for Federal Emergency Management Agency nonprofit security grants.
Interior-Environment: The House will allow earmarking for Forest Service state and private forestry projects, while senators can earmark within the National Park Service’s Historic Preservation Fund and various Interior land management accounts, as well as Bureau of Indian Affairs special initiatives.
Labor-HHS-Education: The Senate is allowing earmarks within Health and Human Services child abuse prevention programs and aging and disability services, as well as Education Department rehabilitation services training programs.
Military Construction-VA: No differences; both chambers will allow military construction earmarks, but none within the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Transportation-HUD: The Senate will allow earmarks for transportation research and rail capital projects, in addition to other highway and transit capital projects and Housing and Urban Development economic initiatives both chambers will get to earmark.
From Roll Call, May 13, 2021
As the earmark overview video explains, the House and Senate each have their own bills and own accompanying reports. While it would certainly be less confusing if earmarked accounts cleanly matched between the two, it is the prerogative of each body to determine its own process, and it is possible to gain an earmark in the Senate that is not currently possible in the House.
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