earmarking

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• The Dallas-Fort Worth area is being targeted for the largest collective earmark request in the country, according to a detailed breakdown of overall requests released by the House Appropriations Committee.

• A decade ago, Republicans vehemently opposed a stimulus package from a Democratic president, won an election by making it a focal point and then banned earmarks partly in the name of instituting fiscal responsibility.

• “That clearly I don’t think is a great outcome because the money sits there and we couldn’t move forward just because of the higher cost of the project despite having the earmark in hand,” he said.

• Last week, before Democrats had confirmed their plans, state officials gathered virtually to discuss the return of earmarks.

• Although earmarks might sit untouched, money sometimes can be used for its original purpose.

• Despite the anti-earmark rhetoric in Congress, John Boehner still misses them.

• If those things can be done, I'd happily reward every member of Congress with an earmark of his or her very own.

• Does the Tea Party class know that the earmark-ban game is already over?

• If earmark reform was something that the public understood well enough to hunger for, John McCain would be our president.

• That sense of humor does not lessen but it lightens the gallantry and chivalry which is the earmark of Westerners.

• Every earmark showed that, from the delicate scent of the paper, to the fine, even handwriting.

• That little trick, for example, of beginning sentences with the word “also,” is a familiar earmark of the Kipling school.

• These minor obligations do not earmark more than an hour in the day.