I earmark two Post-it pads to throw out tomorrow, and I already know on the third day I'll throw out these old lint rollers and the cup with a chip on the rim.
The paper considers what happens when a local legislator attains seniority and improves his or her ability to deliver earmark spending, and concludes:Seniority shocks result in economically and statistically significant declines in firm capital expenditures.
Though it must service and repay the debt it will raise to buy Vodafone, it will no longer have to earmark almost half of its earnings for its British shareholder.
REPUBLICANS aren't sure they have the votes to pass an earmark ban in the lame-duck session of congress, and I for one could not care less.
Although that did not break any rules, it prompted the biggest outcry about an earmark since the Alaskan contingent in Congress requested millions for a "bridge to nowhere".
Again, there are good reasons why one might want to eliminate or curtail the earmark funding system.
They want to solve specific problems in a specific way (rather than just earmark money for some vaguely benevolent purpose).
The average state experiences a 40 to 50 percent increase in earmark spending if its senator becomes chair of one of the top-three committees.
For years some have argued that the best way of getting around popular suspicion of taxation, and indeed government, is to earmark particular taxes for particular uses.
and Mel Martinez (R-Fla)..... Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-Tex)., for instance, requested a $4 million earmark for Digital Fusion, a company whose executives have recently donated $18,000 to the lawmaker.
Perhaps the most controversial of Mr Bush's proposals is one that would earmark $300m a year for programmes to boost marriage rates among the poor.
