Sentence examples for item money from inspiring English sources

Some lawmakers have even faced criminal charges for diverting member item money to their own pockets.

One former Council member, Miguel Martinez, was sentenced to five years in prison, partly for stealing member item money.

He has mastered the use of member item money, which is little-regulated money earmarked to meet the individual needs of legislators, to help feed and secure his political base.

I'm hoping that this spring, when the power comes back on, economists will start to tally the costs of the storm with a new, highly motivating line item: money down the drain.

Another increasingly common "Made in China" item: money, and lots of it.

The amount of member item money each Senator has increases with his/her tenure, committee chairmanships, and clout, which, in turn, is dependent on which party's in charge.

Mr. Paterson became Senate minority leader in November 2002, expanding his ability to allocate member-item money.

In years past, the Republican-controlled Senate poured member-item money into special projects on Long Island and upstate, its power base, while the Democratic-controlled Assembly favored New York City and its suburbs.

The majority party in each chamber takes the largest share of the member-item money, and then the leader of the majority party in the Senate and the Assembly takes the biggest chunk and divvies up the rest, with favored or senior members typically coming out on top.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a Democrat, is typically Albany's king of earmarks — he usually hands out about $7 million in member-item money, with a big chunk going to the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, which is run by the husband of Mr. Silver's chief of staff.

City officials still hand out pork, known as member items, money that needs to be watched carefully.