Robert Downey Jnr has been earmarked to star.
The tax was earmarked to go to firefighters.
That money is now earmarked to help AMB shore up its balance sheet, repay loans and, Mr. Moghadam said, eventually allow the company to "go on the offensive instead of the defensive".
Proceeds are being earmarked to benefit the Food Bank for New York City.
Special block grants are earmarked to high priority areas such as heart surgery and cancer treatment.
This president could do the same he could, for instance, influence congressional races by denying Democrats the ability to win votes back home through earmarks, while allowing Republicans to pork out to their hearts content.
At first, on the nutty bonuses, Team Obama thought it could get away with the same absurd argument used to justify the nearly $8 billion in unnecessary earmarks it allowed Congress to jam into this year's overdue spending bill: It was written last year; we're just signing off on it; we'll do better in the future.
The Obama administration and Congressional Democrats, sensitive to accusations that they were allowing earmarks to continue unchecked, are considering ways to adjust the budgeting system, which President Obama has said should be more open and transparent.
There was no full committee "markup" where such links could be examined, nor were challenges to the earmarks allowed on the House floor.
According to Visible Vote's legal team, the company qualifies as an intermediary that is allowed to forward earmarked campaign contributions to a candidate.
