Fears have been raised by residents over plans to earmark greenbelt flood plain for 3, 500 homes.
Consultants frequently advise families to earmark assets outside a company for those who aren't on the payroll.
Representative ZACH WAMP (Republican, Tennessee): You know, I will defend until my death the ability of the Congress to direct the funding or to earmark projects.
Specifically they provided donors with options like the ability to earmark gifts for the care and feeding of cats, or the vaccination of dogs.
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Hayley Conboy, CBI principal policy adviser for enterprise, said Lord Young had rightly identified that the government "needs to earmark funding to effectively market existing finance and support schemes".
It was Gates who apparently helped convince Buffett to earmark the majority of his Berkshire Hathaway shares to charity, believed to be the largest gift in history, most of which will go to the Gates Foundation.
The first outcome of this agreement is likely to be new powers for local councils, to be announced in next year's white paper on transport, allowing them to earmark the proceeds of road-pricing schemes for local transport.
But only now, a full year after civilian rule returned to Nigeria, is there a plan to earmark some of the earnings from the 2m barrels a day that the country currently exports, and use it to improve the lives of the people living in the oil-producing areas.
In a statement Tuesday, HP said it intends to court Dell customers who are worried about the company's ability to innovate, expand its product line and pay its bills now that it will have to earmark some of cash flow to reduce the debt taken on to go private.
Unlike the House, Senate doesn't have rules in place to identify earmark sponsors.
And we backed that up by passing the most sweeping ethics reforms since Watergate and by beginning to address earmark abuse.
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And what happened is she never said no, but the money was eventually sent to Alaska but with the earmark for the bridge to nowhere taken out of it.
They want to be able to get their earmark spending in for their home district.
But oddly enough, he already has the power to do so--he could simply tell a federal agency to ignore the earmark language in the conference report that accompanies an appropriations bill.
And tomorrow, I will issue an Executive Order that directs Federal agencies to ignore any future earmark that is not voted on by the Congress.
Several years ago, while sitting on the board of an internal combustion engine startup, I had to nix a proposal to seek a cleantech earmark.
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Congress also failed to carry out promised earmark reforms this year.
I'm also calling on Congress to continue down the path of earmark reform.
The government spending watchdog Citizens Against Government Waste routinely took Stevens to task for his expertise with the earmark.
And the outgoing committee chair, California Congressman Jerry Lewis, remains under investigation for his ties to friends and former staffers who became earmark lobbyists.
The next day, when the cloud moved and I completed my journey, I learned that, after a similar belch of ash choked out all four engines of a K.L.M. flight into Anchorage in 1989, Ted Stevens finagled an earmark on an appropriations bill to secure federal funds for the Alaska Volcano Observatory, whose missions included the monitoring of volcanic activity and its attendant hazards.
And they became earmark junkies as part of their votes to massively increase the burden of government spending.
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And in spite of the buzz on Capitol Hill about reforming earmark spending, don't expect it to stop anytime soon.
They want to solve specific problems in a specific way (rather than just earmark money for some vaguely benevolent purpose).
Even professional earmark fighters, long suspicious of Boeing, should be able to make peace with a re-evaluation based on a very clear and disinterested reading of the original criteria.
You could eliminate every earmark, you could eliminate foreign aid, you could eliminate all that stuff -- it would amount to about 5 percent of the budget.
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