The Council left intact its pot of earmarks that members dole out each year, which is expected to total $49.9 million, a 0.1 percent increase from the previous year.
This time she goes to her office in the Capitol, where she signs correspondence, flips through papers and talks with staff members, doling out orders in between.
Staff members dole out treats to pets who come through.
He hired a black staff member, doled out pork to black mayors as well as white, and re-engineered his constituency machine (which is reported to be one of the best in the country) so that it took care of blacks as well as whites.
The relationship between council members and the community groups to which they allocate city money has come into sharp relief against the backdrop of a broader inquiry by federal prosecutors and the city's Department of Investigation into how council members dole out millions of dollars in discretionary money they control to nonprofit agencies that provide a broad range of services.
The Liberals have traditionally favoured immigration (including that of family members), and have doled out subsidies for an array of multicultural causes.
ALBANY — Member items, which are annual legislative earmarks doled out by individual members for pet projects, are scattered throughout New York State's budget and total $170 million.
According to some accounts, one of the thorniest tasks for Mr Juncker's team was to ensure that enough posts in commissioners' cabinets (private offices) were doled out to members of the CDU or its allies.Mrs Merkel is often helped by the missteps of Europe's other big countries.
Mr. Suozzi has said the distribution of these so-called member items, which are often doled out to senior legislators and party loyalists, is one way the system is rigged to favor incumbents.
As minority leader, Mr. Paterson did not hesitate to attack the leadership of the majorities in both chambers on the issue of accountability, accusing them of trying to hide details of how they used hundreds of millions of dollars in "member items," the discretionary spending doled out by legislators.
And the speaker preserved the Legislature's cherished spending on pet projects, pushing successfully for $170 million for members to dole out in district spending, leaving that pool of money essentially untouched, despite the fiscal crisis.
