Before earmarking what we will do with the money from limits on chimerical loopholes, our leaders need to clear the path for the painful process of broadening the tax base.
It is not an individual Congressman's earmark or a secret earmark, but what is known as a 'national' earmark.
Mr. McCain was a seasoned senator who had made a trademark of his opposition to spending earmarks and what he called "pork" — line items lawmakers would insert in spending bills to fund strictly parochial projects.
All told, Paris has set aside 100 million euros in stimulus funds earmarked for what the French like to call their cultural patrimony.
The House Rules Committee said Tuesday it would hold two hearings next week on whether to restore earmarks in what GOP aides characterized as a long-delayed fulfillment of Ryan's promises". — Warren: Rethink laundering laws.
(In fact, it was not clear whether Mr. Berens had died or whether he had deserted Mrs. Berens; he was never alluded to in my presence, and his relict had all the earmarks of what was then called a grass widow).
In speech after speech to crowds in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia in recent days, Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican nominee for vice president, has made sure to mention the so-called Bridge to Nowhere, the Alaska project that has become the symbol of earmarks, and what she portrays as her "thanks but no thanks" position on it.
The mayor, said David K. Rebovich, a political science professor at Rider University, is playing the victim card, demanding that the state take its hands off money earmarked for what it considers to be good causes – even if there are no rules in place to ensure that the money is not doled out to political friends.
Some of the money was earmarked for what lawmakers said were real emergencies, like battling drug traffickers in beleaguered Colombia and paying for the military operation in Kosovo, that could not wait for the regular appropriations process to finish in a few months.
The president wants some of the new money earmarked for what he is calling his "second war on cancer," a reference to the first war begun in 1971 by former President Richard Nixon.
