Sentence examples for earmark into from inspiring English sources

Senator Richard C. Shelby, Republican of Alabama, inserted the earmark into legislation.

He can insert the earmark into a big, fat, unrelated bill, in the hope that it passes without anyone reading it.

He even learned to take advantage of the bane of every federal program manager a congressional spending directive from a legislator, steering funds to the interests of an important constituent by turning one such earmark into a productive program to expand the use of ceramic bearings.

It was Mr. McConnell's generation of Republicans that turned earmarks into high political art.

It convinced 104 different House members to add separate earmarks into the defense appropriations bill worth $300 million to PMA Group clients.

Democrats are angry at what they see as hypocrisy, given that Republicans including the minority leader, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, stuffed earmarks into a bill they are now criticizing.

Lawmakers' projects have drawn new attention in the past year because they abetted the misdeeds of former Representative Randy Cunningham, a California Republican who accepted bribes in exchange for earmarking money for military contractors, and the lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who bribed lawmakers to insert earmarks into spending bills.

Tensions are particularly acute in districts where new conservative lawmakers, many of whom criticized throughout their campaigns the practice of quietly inserting earmarks into spending bills, are coming face to face with local governments and interest groups who were counting on federal dollars to help shore up their own collapsing budgets.

The practice of inserting earmarks into spending bills, once used fairly sparingly by Congress as a way of imposing its budget priorities on the executive branch, has mushroomed, with lobbyists competing for the attention of committee members who control the money.

Over all, of the roughly $2.3 million in individual contributions his campaign has raised, about 10percentt has come from people who work in the defense industry, some of whom have personally profited from contracts inserted as earmarks into spending bills by Representative Moran.

I also asked you to stop slipping earmarks into committee reports that never even come to a vote.