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About 8percentt of the $286.4 billion bill is set aside for more than 6,000 special projects inserted by lawmakers.
Some of the reductions he plans to make in the 2000 budget are in projects inserted for constituents by individual members of Congress.
Others point to "pork" or "earmarks" in the budget public works projects inserted into spending bills that principally benefit an individual congressman's district or a senator's state.
Although the House bill includes a $3 billion aid package for the airlines, it is relatively free of the personal projects inserted by members of the Senate Appropriations Committee.
And in a recent meeting of the senior House appropriators about proposals to curb their traditional power to grant earmarks, individual members' pet projects inserted into spending bills, Mr. Visclosky surprised his colleagues by voicing support for the idea, Democrats said.
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B11 THE COST OF WAR -- Dozens of pork-barrel projects were inserted at the last minute in the bill to pay for the war.
Into this academic tussle, the human genome project has inserted a remarkable new finding.
Into this temple-like space, Machine Project has inserted contemporary works by a diverse group of Los Angeles artists.
A researcher can access and update data from its own experiments, see data associated with experiments of the same project, even if inserted by other project members, and cannot see data that belongs to projects to which they do not belong.
The legislation would for the first time require the disclosure of all earmarks — the pet projects lawmakers insert into spending bills — and their sponsors.
He has aimed his anti-deficit rhetoric, both before the election and since, principally at waste and earmarks, the pet projects legislators insert into spending bills.
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