Others say that the law should at the least earmark candidates for treatment.
To recap: print sales down, advertising down, digital revenue on a plateau, at least £41m earmarked to cover hacking claims and a failed newspaper launch.
In recent years, Mr. Weiner has sponsored at least 40 earmarks, including appropriations of roughly $235,000 to fight beach erosion in the Rockaways and $3.7 million to restore a salt marsh in Brooklyn.
For instance, the budget called for moving at least $1 billion earmarked for transportation uses into the general fund, a move challenged by transit advocates, who have prevailed in court.
In all, according to Taxpayers for Common Sense, a nonprofit group that tracks Congressional spending, there are in the spending bill at least 9,286 earmarks worth $12.8 billion, including projects requested by the Bush administration.
The earlier version said Malmö "is spending almost 20m Swedish kroner a year (£19m) on various cycling programmes, with at least 400m kroner earmarked for 2012-19".
Smith, at least, had been earmarked for the chop for months, her reputation tarnished not just by her adult video expenses embarrassments but by a troubled, increasingly lacklustre period in the most unforgiving of ministerial posts.
By some estimates, the bill contains at least 9,000 such earmarks.
"The question is: Will the savings be passed on to the public in some form?" Mr. Ratner began exploring modular construction during the recession in 2010 as a way to make good on his promise to use union labor, deliver good architecture and earmark at least 30 percent of the proposed 6,430 units for low- and moderate-income tenants.
Now that the measures have cleared the Legislature, there is a renewed push to earmark at least a portion of that money before the session ends next week.
