Sentence examples for budget earmark from inspiring English sources

Mr. Baca last year helped secure a $500,000 budget earmark for Telacu, another local housing group that donates to his foundation.

But that effort foundered after the university's president at the time, Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, asked Senator Edward M. Kennedy to finance it through a budget earmark for "a few million dollars," Mr. Trachtenberg recalled.

The investigators ultimately concluded that there was insufficient evidence to charge Mr. Young with wrongdoing in connection with the budget earmark for a highway interchange in Florida that would have benefited a Michigan real estate developer who was a major political donor to Mr. Young, a Republican who has represented Alaska in Congress since 1973.

Therefore, create a budget: earmark funds, based on an assessment of what you need and what you would be comfortable spending.

The 2000 town budget earmarked $6,059,000 for the library.

He said that Mr. Jefferson never introduced legislation or sought budget earmarks for any of the projects.

It would bar lawmakers from taking contributions from anyone who benefits from their budget earmarks.

She prides herself on working the system, not changing it — rebuffing reforms on everything from lobbyist donations to budget earmarks.

Mr Obama insists that his reform should be paid for rather than add to the budget deficit, so his budget earmarks $634 billion in cuts to existing health programmes and various tax increases.

While flagging big cuts to future school spending growth, the Coalition's first budget earmarks the funding over five years to continue the chaplaincy scheme originally put into place by John Howard.

The governor said he would also push for a constitutional amendment prohibiting the percentage of the state budget earmarked for prisons from exceeding what is set aside for its public university system.