The last conference in 2015 was marked with tough debates on which frequencies to earmark for drones.
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And Democrats' proposal for a $289 million earmark for Flint stalled the nation's first energy bill in a decade.
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An appropriate earmark for coalition expenses and compensation — as a deferred payment for the future — also must be made.
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An open ended marketing earmark for a flawed web tool could give seniors nothing more than a website to nowhere.
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Money you earmark for retirement may be needed for an emergency expense you never planned for when you made the investment.
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Some Democrats had previously objected to a provision, calling it an earmark for an advocacy group funded by Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America.
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"Apparently Senate Democrats thought an earmark for Planned Parenthood in the future was more important that preventing the threat of Zika now," Stewart said.
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But the Addiction Policy Forum is the only group that meets that criteria, essentially making the provision an "earmark" for the group, Democrats argue.
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Meanwhile, the amount of money that car companies need to earmark for research and development is ballooning, especially as competition with Silicon Valley heats up.
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Reconcile your budget with your spending patterns to see how much money you can earmark for your goals — and be honest about where you can cut spending.
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It is hoped the club doesn't follow the example of the Royal and Ancient and earmark for membership a couple of nonagenarian women who don't have time on their side.
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"First of all, there's no Planned Parenthood [provision] in this bill, and to put an earmark for Planned Parenthood is something that we won't do," Ryan said at his weekly briefing.
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Democrats are objecting to a bill in the Senate aimed at curbing the opioid crisis because of a GOP provision they say is an earmark for one PhRMA-funded advocacy group.
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Numerous cuts could be made to the Department of Defense without jeopardizing national security, like eliminating the $6900 million earmark for the F-2628 Joint Strike Fighter Program in fiscal 28503.
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But he is successfully keeping alive a zombie earmark for the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility (MFFF) in South Carolina, despite attempts to cancel the project by both the Obama and Trump administrations.
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Workers under 2500 can contribute up to $2500,103 to a 210(k) in 24, but how much you actually earmark for the account depends on your income, debt level and other financial goals.
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Duke Cunningham and lobbyist Jack Abramoff going to jail for earmark-related bribes, and then there was the $223 million earmark for the "Bridge to Nowhere" to connect an 8,000-person Alaskan town to an airport.
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The legislation had run into a temporary roadblock over a GOP provision, inserted into the bill after it cleared committee, that Democrats said is an earmark for one advocacy group funded by Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America.
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One of the challenges that Disney faces is basically deciding how many marquee titles to earmark for the service, given that some of those titles could easily be turned into feature films or TV programs for its other networks.
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Murphy, who took over from long-time chief executive Tommy Breen in July, said he could not say how much the company would earmark for further acquisitions, but would like to deploy capital across all four of its businesses.
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Under the old system, lawmakers were attacked for pushing for projects like the so-called "bridge to nowhere," an earmark for a bridge costing more than $200 million to build to link a road to a remote Alaskan town with a tiny population.
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"Pretty sure we have just discovered an earmark for Hillsdale College/Betsy DeVos courtesy of Pat Toomey," McCaskill wrote, linking to an article from December 2016 that references President Donald Trump choosing DeVos for education secretary over Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn, while also detailing her own relations to the college.
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After congressional reforms required legislators to attach their names to earmark requests, disclosures for the fiscal year 2008 budget show that Biden, along with Republicans Chuck Grassley of Iowa and the late Ted Stevens of Alaska, co-sponsored a $450,000 Senate earmark for Justice Department funding for D.A.R.E. The earmark died in conference.
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He would go on to become the first openly gay legislator in Texas, landing the first state funding earmark for community-based AIDS service organizations.
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He advocated private- public partnerships to bring investment to rural areas. Wicker also worked for veterans' issues while serving as a member of the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Subcommittee.About Roger from Wicker's official U.S. Senate website In his final year as representative, Wicker topped the list in earmarks. In 2007, Wicker was criticized after securing a $6 million earmark for a defense company whose executives had made significant contributions to his campaign.
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In 2009, Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe agreed to use $2.5 million of stimulus funds to fund part of the renovation. A previous $8 million earmark for the project had failed to pass the state legislature. In 2010, fundraising was finally completed for the bridge, renamed as the Clinton Park Bridge, and construction began on May 28, 2010. On September 30, 2011, Clinton spoke at a dedication ceremony for the bridge, which opened to the public on October 2, 2011.
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Taylor started exchange programs for Russian students and internships for aspiring bankers and entrepreneurs in 1994, at colleges in his district.Cory Reiss, "Rep. Taylor accepts award for investments", Times-News, December 9, 2005 In 2005, Taylor secured $100,000 in federal money for the International Trade and Small Business Institute, which brings foreign students to the U.S. to study at seven colleges and universities in western North Carolina. The 2007 federal budget contains a $1-million earmark for the program.
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Keeping the land free of development helps ensure property values remain high. ESRI had hired Copeland Lowery in 2000, the year before the purchase and donation. In 2002, the year after the donation, the defense appropriations subcommittee, which Lewis chaired, provided a $15 million earmark for the National Imagery and Mapping Agency to acquire software from ESRI. The Dangermonds said in a statement that they didn't know Lewis lived in the neighborhood when they decided to buy the land and donate it.
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Remains of the cloister of the convent can be seen embedded in the passage that leads to the Ministry of Culture on Capitulares Street. The chapter house, designed by Hernán Ruiz II, was possibly unfinished for lack of funds. Restoration and refurbishment of the building occurred in 2008 as part of an earmark for the cultural area of the city. One of the most important sculptures of Easter Cordoba, Our Lady of Sorrows, is by Juan de Mesa and dates to 1627.
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Political commentator Michael J. Malbin has commented that Congress suffers from an "I'll support your pork if you support mine" syndrome and that it would be difficult to eliminate pork without fundamentally changing the way in which Congress appropriates funds. Some politicians take a hard-line stance against pork An early-21st-century example of attempted pork barrel spending was the Gravina Island Bridge, a proposed Alaska bridge which attracted so much national attention as a "bridge to nowhere" that the earmark for it was removed.
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Yamiche Alcindor, 'Auntie Maxine' Waters Goes After Trump and Goes Viral, New York Times (July 7, 2017). Citizens Against Government Waste named her the June 2009 Porker of the Month due to her intention to obtain an earmark for the Maxine Waters Employment Preparation Center.Wood, Daniel B. (August 3, 2010), "Maxine Waters: charges highlight mixed ethics record", The Christian Science Monitor. Waters came under investigation for ethics violations and was accused by a House panel of at least one ethics violation related to her efforts to help OneUnited Bank receive federal aid.
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Early in her Congressional career, Lowey sponsored an earmark for the purpose of "dredging the Mamaroneck Harbor."Carney, Timothy (March 16, 2011) Government for the Yachters, Washington Examiner According to the local newspaper, The Journal News, the dredging was proposed because "the harbor was becoming too shallow 'to accommodate the larger yachts.'" In 2001–2002, Lowey served as the first female chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. One of the notable causes she supports is the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, in support of which she appeared at a congressional hearing accompanied by Sesame Street characters Bert and Ernie.
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The hurricane left significant damage to the state's citrus industry. Just 31 million boxes of oranges were produced during the growing season that ended on September 30, the smallest Florida orange crop since 1942. Governor Scott and the congressional delegates from Florida proposed amending an additional $2.5 billion to the devastate relief bill for the purpose of assisting not only the citrus growers in recovery, but also other sectors of the agricultural industry hit hard by the storm. However, Congress ultimately excluded the $2.5 billion earmark for Florida's agriculture industry recovery in the disaster relief package passed on October 24.
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Anaheim Resort Transportation (ART), established in 1998 as the Anaheim Transportation Network (ATN) and formerly known as Anaheim Resort Transit, is a mass transportation provider in the Anaheim Resort area and its environs in Orange County, California, United States. ART uses a fleet of vehicles, including tourist trolleys, to provide access to hotels, malls, and tourist- related enterprises, which are the main destinations connected by the system. In 2005, Citizens Against Government Waste criticized an earmark for ART from the United States Congress as wasteful spending. In 2010, Disney contracted with ART to run shuttles from a Disney-owned parking lot to the Disneyland Resort.
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At the hearings, the automakers also presented the hydrogen vehicle as a better alternative to the gasoline car, bolstered by a recent federal earmark for hydrogen research. Many, including members of the CARB hearing committee, were concerned that this was a bait-and-switch on the automakers' part, in order to make CARB eliminate the EV mandate, and that hydrogen was not as viable an alternative as it was made to seem. CARB had already rolled back deadlines several times, in light of car companies' unreadiness to meet the ZEV requirement. In 2001, it proposed amendments that would grant automakers credit for producing advanced-technology, partial-zero emission vehicles, such as hybrid cars, in place of battery EVs.
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The Gravina Island Bridge, commonly referred to as the "Bridge to Nowhere", was a proposed bridge to replace the ferry that currently connects the town of Ketchikan, Alaska, United States, with Gravina Island, an island that contains the Ketchikan International Airport as well as 50 residents. The bridge was projected to cost $398 million. Members of the Alaskan congressional delegation, particularly Representative Don Young and Senator Ted Stevens, were the bridge's biggest advocates in Congress, and helped push for federal funding. The project encountered fierce opposition outside Alaska as a symbol of pork barrel spending and is labeled as one of the more prominent "bridges to nowhere". As a result, Congress removed the federal earmark for the bridge in 2005.
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The House Ethics Committee investigated several members of the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, including Moran, Peter J. Visclosky, Norm Dicks, Marcy Kaptur and the late John Murtha, who was the chairman at the time, for a conflict of interest in the allocation of the government contracts to clients of the PMA Group, which donated nearly a million dollars to Moran's political action committee, as well as a significant amount of money to the gubernatorial campaign of Moran's younger brother, Brian. Moran said that he was unaware of "who made donations", and "how much they gave", and therefore was not affected by the donations when allocating the funding. In February 2010, the panel cleared Moran and the others, saying that they violated no laws. The panel concluded, as part of its 305-page report, that "simply because a member sponsors an earmark for an entity that also happens to be a campaign contributor ... does not support a claim that a member's actions are being influenced by campaign contributions".
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