Sentence examples for In the earmarking from inspiring English sources

But voters might yawn a bit at that attack, knowing that many lawmakers from both parties have voted to raise the debt ceiling, and that Republicans (as well as Democrats) participated in the earmarking game for decades.

But some lawmakers and lobbyists closely involved in the earmarking process predicted that Congressional appropriating committees could still find ways to provide money for pet projects at home -- for instance, by directing the Pentagon to add the project money to its own budget.

Representative Jeff Flake, Republican of Arizona, said Congress could easily maintain — and even expand — its purview over spending and still not engage in the earmarking process that has led to corruption scandals and is often viewed as a way to generate campaign contributions.

We pledged to clean up the abuses in the earmark process, and we kept that promise.

Mr. Mapel said he worried that bigger, more established companies had an unfair advantage in the earmark process.

He is not considered a significant player in the earmarks game.

Comstock said that neither Lewis nor his staff recalled hearing from Oates on the projects and that Lewis' minimal role in the earmarks was based solely on the merits of the projects.

As is the case in the ESF system, the sows eat individually at feeding automats, and their individual feed rations are elicited by a transponder in the earmark.

Mr. McCain wants to zero in on "earmarking," the lawmakers' addiction to passing billions in hidden pork projects at the behest of lobbyists.

The red star campaign started in the early 1990s, but when Malawi became a democratic state in 1994, the earmarked buildings were repainted and forgotten by the council.

At one point in the debate, Mr. McCain denounced the White House budget director, Peter Orszag, for saying in an interview that the earmarks in the spending bill were "last year's business" and that the administration wanted to move on.