Sentence examples for allowed to earmark from inspiring English sources

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Since 1982, when legislators were allowed to earmark transport funds for specific highway bills, this has been a convenient way of dishing out congressional pork.

One question involved a program that had not been known in which a small number of senior Gannett managers were allowed to earmark $20,000 per year to any nonprofit they wanted.

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According to Visible Vote's legal team, the company qualifies as an intermediary that is allowed to forward earmarked campaign contributions to a candidate.

Matt Thornton, spokesman for House Majority PAC, said, "Unlike party committees, super PACs are allowed to accept earmarked donations".

The government of Tanzania was therefore not allowed to use the funds in the health basket earmarked for P4P.

They have concerns that too few apartments are being earmarked for area residents, and they wonder why the buildings were allowed to decay in the first place.

As a U.S. representative, Mr. Flake's successful libertarian-minded campaign to ban earmarks — the small spending projects that members were long allowed to direct to their districts — so annoyed party leaders that he was denied a seat on the House Appropriations Committee.

From now on, steak will be allowed to leave Argentina only under special conditions for example, if it is part of a small quota of high-quality meat earmarked for Europe.

He argues that earmarks make it impossible for politicians to prioritise: they explain why the New Orleans levees were allowed to crumble but money was appropriated for unnecessary bridges.

Top officials from companies getting earmarks would be limited to donating $5,000 to lawmakers in each two-year election cycle, and they would not be allowed to give at all while seeking an earmark.

The Obama administration and Congressional Democrats, sensitive to accusations that they were allowing earmarks to continue unchecked, are considering ways to adjust the budgeting system, which President Obama has said should be more open and transparent.

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