Sentence examples for earmark in from inspiring English sources

I smell an earmark in some omnibus transportation bill.

"I don't see that as an earmark in any way, shape or form because there is no transfer of anything of value," Mr. Huizenga said.

"Everything is collapsing around us and we find a small earmark in a Western state and say the country is falling apart because of that?" Mr. King said.

Senator Stephen M. Saland, a Poughkeepsie Republican, directed a $30,000 earmark in 2006 to Habitat for Humanity of Dutchess County, a client of the law firm where he works, Gellert & Klein.

He was the fiercest critic of the earmark in the federal budget to build a "Bridge to Nowhere" in Alaska in 2005, arguing that the money would be better spent on repairs following Hurricane Katrina.

As a stopgap effort to come up with new money, Assemblyman Vito J. Lopez, a Democrat from Brooklyn, who is chairman of the Housing Committee in the Assembly, inserted a $1.5 million earmark in the budget for the programs.

John McCain is angry about earmarks in the budget.

"Also, we've heard there are earmarks in there.

Mr. McCain regularly receives cheers and applause when he declares, "I will not sign a bill with earmarks in it, any earmarks in it".

The vague announcement may include large sums already earmarked in the budget.

Both parties have denounced earmarks in recent elections, to no effect on deficit growth.