His assigned rate was 120 items an hour, or one item every 30 seconds.
Common Cause, a group that advocates for an open, honest government, has called the items an "incumbency protection program".
They aim to process 6,000 items an hour or potentially up to 7,000 if everything goes to plan.
Member items, an Albany euphemism for pork projects, would be cut in half this year to $100 million.
I had expected big-ticket items: an affair, a shady business deal, addictions — that kind of thing.
They are made of everyday items: an office in-box, a wooden crate that in a prior life transported water bottles, plastic mailboxes bought at Home Depot.
If the conferees had added items, an internal rule passed by the House earlier this month would have required the sponsors to take responsibility publicly.
It features the world's largest automated sorter of library materials, which sorts 7,500 items an hour, doubling the capacity of materials the Library can process.
But no company has been able to create for very low-priced items an effective online payment system that is worth the time and bother.
The store opened at 5 a.m., and by 5 05, the group had bought their items — an iPad and four iPods — and were ready to leave.
Recently, he went shopping for other items an indoor gardener might find useful in creating and maintaining a container garden, and a black-thumbed reporter tagged along.
