Earmarks

Included in it were earmarks for projects in legislator’s districts.

Notably, the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the biggest climate spending initiative in U.S. history, earmarks US$369 billion for clean energy investment.

The IRA earmarks $369 billion for climate change and energy security programs over the next decade.

What is anyone who has followed this team to think other than this has the earmarks of a sinking ship that is throwing Rodgers’ Improbable Dream overboard?

Hogan said Monday the commission has been working “cohesively and collaboratively” to propose earmarks within deadline.

It earmarks specific guidelines for the use of the funds.

Our appropriations process is already flawed enough without further muddying the process with earmarks.

Recall that 51 former intelligence officers signed the infamous letter saying the damning evidence on Hunter’s laptop had the earmarks of Russian disinformation.

Roughly $800 million of those earmarks went to nonprofits including shelters for victims of domestic violence, food banks and Habitat for Humanity grants to build homes for those in need.

As Kilmer and Graves note in their final report, it’s no coincidence that, since earmarks were banished, the already shaky congressional budget process fell off a cliff.

As the Harvard law professor Jack Goldsmith and I have before, if deterrence is the measure of success, the United States’ Chinese-hacking indictment strategy has all the earmarks of a spectacular failure.

He steered enormous amounts of federal funding to favored projects through the use of earmarks, spending directives that were slipped into annual appropriations bills.

She also earmarks my ‘bunny’ lines at the top of my nose, the puckering lines around my lips and the muscles just under the corners of my jaw, which can make my neck look stringy.

The city’s five-year capital improvement plan earmarks the funds for projects such as the $40 million replacement of the 60-year-old, 7.5 million gallon Peck Reservoir with a new 8 million gallon reservoir.

However, in addition to financial management, she earmarks time for attending to cleanliness-related issues in the neighbourhood.

She brought to light a practice of misrepresentation that has all the earmarks of lawfully rigged, institutionalized racism.

The conference vote, however, was 28–12, suggesting that at least a dozen Republican senators would like to see earmarks restored, at least in some fashion.

At that hearing, GOP supporters of the return of earmarks argued the corruption associated with the special projects has been vastly exaggerated.

Earmarks, often in the form of what are derisively referred to as “pork barrel” spending, used to be the lubricant that kept the wheels of Congress turning.

He wants to see earmarks banned and has promised to propose a Sexual Harassment Commission for state employees.