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An Earmark refers to congressional provisions directing funds to be spent on specific projects (or directs specific exemptions from taxes or mandated fees). Earmarks known as hard earmarks or hardmarks are found in legislation itself. Soft earmarks or softmarks are placed in the text of Congressional committee reports. Hard earmarks have the effect of law. Despite soft earmarks not having the effect of law, they are treated as if they were binding.[1] Legislators have historically sought to insert earmarks to direct specific amounts of money to organizations or projects in the member's home state or district.

Centuries ago, King Edward I of England decreed that gold and silver had to be tested and approved by master craftsmen before being sold. Later, London artisans were required to bring finished metal goods to Goldsmith's Hall to be checked, and if those items met the quality standards of the craft-masters there, they would be marked with a special stamp of approval. (The process is much the same today.) At first, people used hallmark to name that mark of excellence from Goldsmith's Hall, but over the years the word came to refer to any mark guaranteeing purity or genuineness, and eventually to name any sign of outstanding talent, creativity, or excellence.