In that time I've watched them morph from unfunded pet projects by random geniuses into what amounts to an entire sub-economy dedicated to the creation, funding, and sale of these pet projects.
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They want to be seen to support the government's pet projects.
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Almost immediately, legislators began trying to jam their pet projects through reconciliation.
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Opponents argue earmarks will lead to more wasteful spending on pet projects.
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Pro wrestling is littered with the pet projects of rich, vain men.
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First, there are few avenues for backbenchers to turn pet projects into law.
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Partly as a result, he has made little headway with his pet projects.
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Alphabet, Google's parent company, is letting two of its pet projects fly free.
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Too bad Bernie Sanders has attached the label to some of his pet projects.
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Many contracts to build AMLO's pet projects are being awarded without a bidding process.
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Page, on the other hand, focused on more far-fetched pet projects like flying cars.
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Many officials, in their posts for decades, have pet projects, among them dams in the Amazon.
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But the Trump administration isn't one to fret about legal niceties when pursuing its pet projects.
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Prior to the moratorium, most members used the earmark system to allocate money for pet projects.
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Attracting international capital to pet projects validates the schemes' attractiveness, and serves as a bureaucratic performance metric.
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The newspaper reported that Perry has cleared his future calendar and has been wrapping up pet projects.
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Steve Jobs eventually killed the project, along with a whole lot of other pet projects, in 1997.
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Governor Cuomo prioritized his donors and pet projects over the subway and now working people are suffering.
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Some Republicans say the bill contains too many Democratic pet projects and enlarges the size of government.
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Many politicians on both sides of the political aisle will have to sacrifice their ideological pet projects.
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Another one of his pet projects, the Thiel Fellowship, encourages brilliant high school graduates to skip college.
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Around that time Warhol also did plenty of book design work for pet projects with friends of his.
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But interest in phones with swappable parts waned as companies like Google and LG abandoned their pet projects.
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The amount of time and money invested in their pet projects is balls-to-the-wall hard-core.
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The rest will be spent on government pet projects — transit, subsidies to renewable energy, dubious efficiency programs, etc.
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Politicians and interest groups have a long history of misapplying the term to lend legitimacy to pet projects.
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Expect the deficit to widen to more than $9.33 billion, as well as a lot of pet projects.
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Proceeds are channeled into riskier but higher-yielding investments, such as corporate bonds, or even local government pet projects.
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We are still a nation at war, but President Obama decided to put domestic pet projects above our troops.
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That might inconvenience passengers but would boost the area, one of Mr Johnson's pet projects when he was mayor.■
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He argued that local politicians were using the sites to attract supportive voters for pet projects like school bond issues.
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Why should middle-class Americans foot the bill for a billionaire's pet projects in another country, no matter how worthy?
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It would create some distance between Obama and his Democratic successor, while continuing to further the former president's pet projects.
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Monday, he will retain oversight of one of Mr. Cuomo's pet projects: the $8 billion overhaul of La Guardia Airport.
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He used the company to fund his pet projects, maintained a lavish lifestyle complete with private jets and luxury homes.
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But here too requires leaders who will part with their own pet projects in order to serve the common good.
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His pet projects yielded tangible returns: electricity provision was improved, new roads laid, foreign investors glad-handed and bureaucrats kept honest.
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Which is why tech titans like IBM, Microsoft, Google, and Apple are spinning up their own AI health care pet projects.
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The Republican governor tried to bypass Nunez and the Democrats by calling for special elections on pet projects, with failing results.
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Scientists, in contrast, are usually well-read but might aspire to fancier cars and luxuries and funding for their pet projects.
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Designating federal money for pet projects reached such a corrupting level during the Hastert era that it was later banned altogether.
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Instead, lawmakers have seized on unspent funds and used them to offset, on paper, new, higher spending on other pet projects.
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He argued that Congress functioned more smoothly when lawmakers could set aside spending for pet projects in the annual spending bills.
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Chances are that Ms. Warren leaked the news that Mr. Cohn might be willing to support one of her pet projects.
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Mr. Mulvaney acknowledged that lawmakers of both parties were likely to resist changes that would affect pet projects in their states.
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TV Guide adds that Urman's attentions may be turning to another of her pet projects: a reboot of the WB classic Charmed.
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After some griping, businesses are trying to make the best of their obligation, while keeping politicians happy by funding their pet projects.
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All it would take, according to conventional wisdom, was the usual wheeling and dealing on cabinet posts and allied factions' pet projects.
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The Republicans accused the president of asking for more money than Zika warrants, in order to use the leftovers for pet projects.
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Even if you want this funding for roads and bridges, it will go toward pet projects and toward the federal general fund.
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The are both highly democratic, densely populated, commercialized areas which impose taxes for their pet projects on the rest of the state.
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Democrats were in a celebratory mood, issuing news releases highlighting pet projects included in the measure to be voted on this week.
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He also coerces them for help with pet projects, such as building hotels and athletic venues for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.
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And its cachet has enabled the club to branch out into pet projects, like hosting parties for emerging brands and book signings.
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Unlike Donald Trump, to whom he is often compared, Mr O'Leary enthusiastically backs the legalisation of cannabis, one of Mr Trudeau's pet projects.
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Some have left not because the president is spendthrift, but because he has slashed ministries' budgets to make room for his pet projects.
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But international health organisations can distort domestic institutions, for example by setting up parallel programmes or by diverting health workers into pet projects.
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We will look at — one of my pet projects, nothing to do with the company, is how to reduce air conditioning energy cost.
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Other deals, such as a big investment in a wave pool company, were pet projects led by WeWork cofounder and CEO Adam Neumann.
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Second, the transition shouldn't be viewed as the first opportunity to cash in campaign IOUs or a time to discretely advance pet projects.
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It seems like it's just another performance measure for immigration judges and for the judges dealing with all of the administration's pet projects.
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Congress even passed a bill this week that will create one of Trump's pet projects: A "Space Force" branch of the U.S. military.
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A few of his pet projects were laudable, particularly an effort to grant women equal rights under inheritance laws, which was approved last year.
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The moniker "earmarks" denotes a practice where House leaders buy members' votes by guaranteeing funding for pet projects via must-pass government funding bills.
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But for eight years, all Andrew Cuomo has done is use the MTA like an ATM, taking money out for his other pet projects.
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Short, Pence's chief of staff, told CNN late last year that the vice president has avoided pushing forward his own pet projects or issues.
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Saudi Arabia plans to make a $40 billion investment in one of President Donald Trump's pet projects, U.S. infrastructure development, according a media report.
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But more often than not, we get our creams from bored women with money to throw at pet projects and former reality TV stars.
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In his time in Congress, Delaney regularly had a bipartisan voting record; putting an end to partisan gerrymandering was one of his pet projects.
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As pet projects go, it lacks the sulfurous originality of her emerging idea to let states use federal dollars to put guns in schools.
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But they were really the co-founders' pet projects, and their revenue was and remains a fraction of Google's advertising machine, which includes YouTube.
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Massive spending bills like the one just passed by Congress often has numerous provisions and pet projects dropped in to appease certain powerful members.
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Where once the passage of bills was smoothed by including federal money for pet projects in congressmen's districts, tax breaks are now the preferred lubricant.
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However, there comes a point when you can spend too much time on your clients' needs and overlook your own personal goals and pet projects.
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By lending their names to the fund's advisory board, these financial heavyweights were supposed to ensure that money did not flow to political pet projects.
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The reveal event was held in the shadow of two of Musk's other pet projects: SpaceX's Falcon 231 rocket and a mile-long hyperloop tunnel.
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Some have left not because the president is a spendthrift, but because he has slashed spending by ministries to make room for his pet projects.
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A strong proponent of female quotas for supervisory boards in companies, Kramp-Karrenbauer has made digitalization and boosting ties with neighboring France her pet projects.
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Right now, every special interest in Washington is fighting to lard up the response with their pet projects, from tax breaks to pet social issues.
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And our chief diplomatic correspondent tracked the rise of U.S. doubts about one of its own pet projects: a deepened European commitment to self-defense.
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It is just too easy to free ride at Davos: to talk the talk, adopt a few cute pet projects, and let that be it.
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A few of Mr Essebsi's pet projects were laudable, notably an effort to grant women equal rights under inheritance laws, which was approved last year.
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"The CR process is almost always a mess, with members of Congress habitually looking to load up the bill with their pet projects," McIntosh said.
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The federal highway program is set to expire a year from now, but lawmakers looking to fund their pet projects are eager to get started.
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They see the disaster relief bill as a rare chance to include policy riders and get pet projects passed, which has complicated negotiations and slowed talks.
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Something a little less typical of huge stars is to finance strange pet projects — seemingly regardless of whether they will make any money or be good.
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The $250bn Saudi Public Investment Fund is making huge, wild, bets on Silicon Valley and pursuing the pet projects of Muhammad bin Salman, the crown prince.
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Going forward, the markets will be looking for renewed signs of fiscal discipline, even if some pet projects, like the development of nuclear power, move forward.
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While the government lavishes cash on Mr Correa's pet projects—last year some deans at Yachay were paid $16,300 a month—less-favoured universities face cutbacks.
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"We've been working on this pretty aggressively for the past nine months," said Ellis, who said it is one of a handful of his pet projects.
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Hudak writes: Admittedly, pet projects through earmarking can influence the bottom line of individual appropriations bills, as legislators vie for their own piece of the pie.
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"He used the M.T.A. like an A.T.M." That was Ms. Nixon saying that Mr. Cuomo used money intended for M.T.A. improvements for his own pet projects.
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In Washington, special interest groups attempt to insert themselves into the proverbial "Good List" to seek taxpayer handouts for their pet projects, whether deserved or not.
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Lawmakers have also introduced amendments dealing with several other controversial issues and pet projects, including cutting fossil fuel tax credits or ending the federal ethanol mandate.
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The current capital plan that runs from 2015 to 2019 cost about $32.5 billion and focused on Mr. Cuomo's pet projects rather than fixing the subway.
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Mexican presidents, who serve just one term, rush to build pet projects, or at least to make enough progress that their successors are obliged to complete them.
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The draft law was praised by ratings agency Fitch although some critics have expressed concern that the government wants to tap pensions to help finance pet projects.
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The foundation looks after 100 acres of land, 30 of which are set aside to be used by the community for events, youth activities and pet projects.
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And it might be hard to act once a government is formed, since coalition building often requires the prime minister to provide funds for partners' pet projects.
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The president had earned their anger after revealing previously undisclosed details about budget allocations to the senior clergy's pet projects in the weeks before the protests began.
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Soon, though, Mr. Crane made large investments in wind and solar plants and spent heavily on pet projects like a national network of electric-car charging stations.
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Congress years ago eliminated funding for these types of pet projects, known as earmarks, after they became derided as government boondoggles, largess and a pathway to corruption.
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Doing the right thing — and moving away from their win-win mentality — would involve real sacrifice; instead, it's easier to focus on their pet projects and initiatives.
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Much of Trump's budget proposal is also unlikely to come to fruition as Republicans lawmakers fight for pet projects in their districts and programs popular with constituents.
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One person said that Mr. Perry had been winding down pet projects, like establishing an office on artificial intelligence, and that his future calendar had been cleared.
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In 2011, then-President Obama vowed to veto any spending bill that included earmarks, which have often been seen as leading to wasteful spending on pet projects.
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It's one of the last opportunities members may have to make their legislative mark and assure their pet projects get funded before the end of the year.
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Alphabet was formed in 2015 as a weird holding company for Google, designed in part to distance Page and Brin's various pet projects from Google's core business.
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It has been used to bail out oligarchs favored by Mr. Putin, as well as to help fund pet projects like the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
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He spent more than $380 million in additional money on pet projects and city charities while he was mayor, bringing his total mayoral bill close to $650 million.
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Mark Zuckerberg, the company's chief executive, has made Facebook Live one of his pet projects, two of the people said, devoting significant resources and effort to the initiative.
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Carr and Rosenworcel have yet to be sworn in, but as soon as they are I will contact them to learn more about their positions and pet projects.
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China's mostly state-owned banking system is burdened with bad loans to state-owned enterprises, many of which are unprofitable, and the pet projects of powerful provincial leaders.
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A large factor, several say, is the demise of earmarks, the power to steer money to lawmakers' pet projects in order to persuade them to take tough votes.
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Choosing to return to smoke-filled rooms and funding for pet projects ahead of these vital priorities will certainly not inspire the voters in the upcoming 2018 midterms.
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There, she's reunited with one of the Hawkins Lab's pet projects — Kali, or "Eight," played by Linnea Berthelsen — and learns more about the range and limitations of her power.
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AMLO arranged a second low-turnout vote on November 24th-25th, which rubber-stamped ten of his pet projects, including a costly refinery in his home state of Tabasco.
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"The president's beholden to nobody but the people who elected him, and yes, I understand that every lawmaker over there has pet projects," said Trump budget director Mick Mulvaney.
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And he defaulted to the pet projects of John Bolton, his national-security adviser, a man motivated more by legal theories than by foreign policy and the national interest.
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Mund has accused Carlson of "silencing her" by forcing Mund to focus her public comments on the new company line -- talent and scholarship -- and not her own pet projects.
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Before then, members reluctant to support certain spending bills or other legislative priorities of top leaders could be won over with earmarked funds for pet projects in their districts.
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And for as long as appropriations have existed, members have sought to use that power to send earmarked funding for pet projects back to their home states and districts.
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Politicians not only pressure the bureaucracy to approve their pet projects, sometimes even when they are against local regulations, they also squeeze government banks to give out favorable loans.
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As a result, we have serious concerns that the Department has allowed political interference and pet projects to come ahead of many near-term, critical readiness issues facing our military.
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In the waning days of some American administrations, its attention and devotion to foreign policy issues subsides, as the president pays more attention to his legacy and his pet projects.
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During Mr. Rajapaksa's rule, China found an opening to pull Sri Lanka more closely into its orbit through billions of dollars in loans, some for the ruling family's pet projects.
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The brief history: In 2011, then-President Obama vowed to veto any spending bill that included earmarks, which have often been seen as leading to wasteful spending on pet projects.
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Boost is designed as a crowdfunding platform, much like Kickstarter or Patreon, except that rather than fund pet projects and fledgling documentaries, it collects funds to pay off student loans.
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Known by their supporters as the "grease" that made Washington's wheels turn, earmarks were funds allocated for lawmakers' pet projects that helped secure votes needed to get broader legislation passed.
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The funds earmarked for pet projects included $62 million to improve and expand mental health care in the city, an area that Chirlane McCray, the mayor's wife, is very invested in.
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In conversations with associates, John Kelly has dismissively described paid family leave as one of Ivanka's "pet projects" and said he doesn't understand how it fits into the White House's agenda.
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Clinton also suggested she would be far tougher against foreign nations that hack into American computer networks and would kill one of the Pentagon's pet projects, a nuclear-tipped cruise missile.
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In wake of the Khashoggi disappearance, former U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz announced he was stepping off the board of one of Mohammad bin Salman's pet projects, the NEOM mega city.
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Finally Arkady R. Rotenberg — a longtime friend and judo partner of the president who has become a billionaire not least by adopting some of Mr. Putin's pet projects — took it on.
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Giant spending bills are a magnet for wasteful spending, pet projects, and small policy changes that are easily missed by staff and members who have thousands of pages to pore over.
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Unlike past presidents, he does not have a big coalition held together by patronage and pork-barrel spending (though the government did recently offer 1bn reais, or $260m, for congressmen's pet projects).
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Why it matters: These are small examples of what got slipped in the bill last-minute as the Senate vote neared, and some reveal senators' pet projects back in their home states.
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Google Ideas, one of the pet projects of former Google CEO and current Alphabet Chairman Eric Schmidt, will now be called Jigsaw, becoming the tenth unit inside of Google's holding company, Alphabet.
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The federal government does not track how supplemental revenues are used, so it is easy for state Medicaid bureaucracies to use provider tax revenues to finance pet projects and reward favored suppliers.
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Thiel co-founded PayPal and took an early stake in Facebook; he's used his resulting wealth on pet projects including life-extension research using the blood of young people and seasteading experiments.
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They might question why the company needs to lend executives and engineers to the government to carry out pet projects for the kingdom, like building a new university on the Red Sea.
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At some point, the Democratic Party is going to have to realize that it abandoned the working class to champion the "illegals" and their pet projects of global warming and transgender rights.
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The overwhelming consensus at a House Rules Committee hearing on Wednesday was that allowing members of Congress to authorize pet projects back in their districts makes them more effective at their jobs.
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Washington (CNN)House Speaker Paul Ryan successfully lobbied his Republican colleagues Wednesday to postpone a vote on a proposal to bring back earmarks, billions of dollars for pet projects tucked into spending bills.
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Instead of looking at businesses as bank accounts for politicians' pet projects, we need leaders that recognize that business growth and success are the pathway to wage growth and prosperity for all Americans.
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They snickered as he and other perceived gadflies on the right fringe pressed for a ban on earmarks, pet projects that greased the congressional skids and were loved by members of both parties.
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But years later, the NSF has drifted away from its original mission and opened the door for thousands of social scientists to get taxpayer financing of their pet projects and free foreign excursions.
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Democrats say the Department of Defense should be subject to the same spending restrictions as non-military programs, but Republicans accuse Democrats of stinting on national security in order to fund pet projects.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel is trying to forge a new three-way coalition with the pro-business Free Democrats and environmental Greens, with each of the parties seeking to get its pet projects funded.
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Graafstra recently granted Motherboard an exclusive look at a prototype of one his most striking pet projects: the world's first implant-activated smart gun, which he's developing in his garage in suburban Washington State.
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The government's principal weapon is the ability to offer up positions in ministries with enormous budgets to lawmakers in exchange for their loyalty, along with ramped up pork barrel spending for their pet projects.
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Lawmakers, aware that Congress won't be passing much major legislation this year, view the measure as a rare chance to include policy riders and get pet projects passed, which has complicated negotiations and slowed talks.
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China even offered to make up for the donations Taiwan will no longer be giving to the Rural Constituency Development Fund, which MPs in the Solomons use to pay for pet projects in their constituencies.
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Congress passes spending bills without allowing for real debate and consideration of our current wars, and the war spending account has been used as a slush fund for pet projects of the Pentagon and Congress.
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In his early years in Congress, he developed a reputation as a budget hawk who challenged party leaders to get rid of so-called earmarks, in which federal money is steered to lawmakers' pet projects.
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While many of the end results are for personal use, Makers who want to extend their efforts typically turn to a crowdfunding site to see if they can turn their pet projects into real products.
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Liddell has spent the past year working alongside Kushner in the White House Office of American Innovation, a group created by the Trump administration and seen by many as a hub for Kushner's pet projects.
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He could have heads of mission report to him, not to UNDP, so as to reduce the risk that human-rights abuses are ignored by officials who rely on local politicians' support for their pet projects.
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For one, community-led initiatives do work: from local book groups to chatty cafes to pet projects, small activities that bring people together are increasingly shown to help people feel more deeply connected to their communities.
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By demanding a one-for-one trade between domestic and defense spending, President Obama effectively held defense funding hostage to increases in spending for domestic pet projects for much of his tenure in the White House.
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It's no secret that America's highways and bridges are crumbling and that federal and state Highway Trust Funds are underfunded, wasteful and raided frequently to finance other pet projects, such as California's ill-conceived "bullet" trains.
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One way to do this would be to develop stricter guidelines for voluntary contributions from member states, which are usually funds over and above assessed contributions for pet projects that often deviate from an agency's mission.
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The referendum failed, but he ultimately took control of the bank by appointing devout loyalists, using national reserves to fund pet projects and laying the groundwork for what became one of history's worst peacetime economic disasters.
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While it's true that pet projects may get cut and members of Congress will sometimes use the hearings to score political points, this more-open process builds a relationship between agencies and the members that fund them.
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Even those members of Congress who might vote for new money for the wall are likely to have a different view if they find out that the money is coming from their pet projects close to home.
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"I'm deeply disappointed that the state legislature is actively blocking a bill to prevent Cadiz - one of the Trump administration's pet projects - from destroying the Mojave Desert," U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat, said in a statement.
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In a fiery debate on the Senate floor Monday, Republicans accused Democrats of slowing down the stimulus plan unnecessarily while pushing their own pet projects, including anti-climate change conditions on any airlines that get government loans.
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Mr. Ryan had already headed off an earlier rules change that was deemed potentially embarrassing: a proposal to let lawmakers resume funding of pet projects through designated "earmarks" as long as the money went to public entities.
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OCO has been used as a slush fund not only to pay for those wars, but also to fund tens of billions of dollars in Pentagon pet projects that have nothing to do with our current conflicts.
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Mr Trump's threat of a shutdown—he says Democrats could get their pet projects in return for his—strikes many in both parties as theatre, with a stop-gap scheme likely to finance the government, if only temporarily.
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One in a lifelong series of gauchely self-indulgent pet projects of Alki David, the Greek heir to a Coca-Cola bottling fortune (net worth: approximately $2 billion), Hologram USA can, presumably, operate at a complete financial loss.
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This would force prudent congressional deliberation over federal priorities and facilitate the fiscally responsible shift of funding from pet projects that are outside the proper purview of the federal government toward the nation's core constitutional function: national defense.
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He was welcomed at elite conferences about "ideas" and "innovation," became chummy with the mayors whose cities and pet projects he helped fund, and made himself—out of a long history of sexism and racism—into something marketable.
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This, in turn, might improve the chances of success for two of his pet projects: the Belt and Road Initiative—a scheme to invest vast sums in infrastructure across Asia—and Xiong'an, a new city being built near Beijing.
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Just before City Council approved Kenney's tax in June, it was revealed that tens of millions of dollars in revenue were in fact being diverted to pay for politicians' pet projects, including $85033 million for the city's General Fund.
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Read more: WeWork details CEO Adam Neumann's web of loans, real-estate deals, and family involvement with the companyHe'd also used company money to fund what looked like pet projects, including several entities linked to Neumann's love of surfing.
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But with earmarks banned -- making it nearly impossible to bring home pet projects or use the promise of them as leverage in negotiations -- and spending bills mired in the legislative mud, the committee has lost some of its luster.
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We'll likely also be getting another look at the hardware giant's various Xperia pet projects, like the Agent, which is what would happen if a robot made love to an Amazon Echo — which just seems inevitable at this point, really.
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The presidency is not just about power, and advisers to the President -- whether that President is Republican or Democratic -- should not be motivated primarily by pet projects, and (in some cases) proximity to power and the potential for personal gain.
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KCNA said on Friday that Kim inspected the construction site of Yangdok Hot Springs tourist resort again, one of his pet projects as he focuses on building up tourism as a revenue resource that is not blocked by international sanctions.
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At the same time, any "profits" that they generate are regularly swept by the Treasury (rather than retained as operating capital) into a general "slush fund" that is used to fund the administration's pet projects or to mask larger deficits.
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It's also troubling that lawmakers tend to use the promise of infrastructure "investment" to pass bills built largely around pet projects and wasteful spending – bills that couldn't be justified on their own if subjected to an honest debate and public review.
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They always seem to think we won't notice the money spent on pet projects and ideological whims because these bills tend to be so large that only the congressional staff who write the damn things know what's really in them.
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An odd tone pervaded, as if a very strait-laced stock analyst were trying to loosen up and channel Left's combative voice ("Chairman Hui's pet projects are comically off-strategy ... the endgame is nearing ... a maze of Ponzi-esque debt").
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House Democrats are weighing a return to an earmark-like system that would allow members to secure cash for some pet projects at home, but the idea is making some vulnerable freshmen members anxious that it reeks of the swamp.
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Kim's going to want at least some sanctions lifted -- and, in their place, direct economic assistance -- so he can continue his personal life of luxury and feed his favorite pet projects -- from the military to ski resorts and celebrity visits.
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And if Congress does not approve as large an increase in the budget as Mr. Trump wants, Mr. Shanahan would need to tell the services no on other pet projects if he wants to enforce any budget discipline, Mr. Adams said.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - As Malaysia seeks to move beyond the excesses associated with nearly a decade of rule under ex-prime minister Najib Razak, one of his pet projects continues to rise irreversibly skyward to become the tallest building in Southeast Asia.
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"Modi would need to contend with coalition politics in a way he has not had to before, and policy-making could slow as he focuses on the pet projects of his alliance partners and avoids difficult reform that they oppose," Riser-Kositsky warned.
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From The Washington Post:The findings revive questions about whether the country is well-served when America's wealthiest citizens choose pet projects and fund them so generously that public institutions, policy and money follow—even if those projects are not grounded in sound research.
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The product designer, who is on a year-long sabbatical, said he considered traveling for a year as a tourist, but thought he would be more fulfilled working on pet projects and meeting people who are in the creative and technology space.
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He has also overseen some of Erdogan's pet projects, including an underground train tunnel linking the European and Asian sides of Istanbul, a third suspension bridge across the Bosphorus and a new Istanbul airport, billed to be one of the world's biggest.
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With Democrats back in control of the House after eight years of Republican control, there is strong support for reviving earmarks — the power to direct money on pet projects — which caused a major scandal in Congress during the George W. Bush years.
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The Dark Crystal was one of the late Jim Henson's pet projects, one whose world he continued to build and expand for years after the film was created, and the new production has been built as faithfully as possible to that spirit.
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But that timeline slipped amid last-minute jockeying over a host of issues and lawmakers trying to insert pet projects into what is shaping up to be one of the last major pieces of legislation to pass Congress before the midterm elections.
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President Trump often plays the national security card to buttress other pet projects like tariffs, but it is unlikely that Mexico and Canada will agree that unarmed men, women, and children, many of whom are seeking asylum, pose a dire national security risk.
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Does anyone believe that the same sort of Congress that just passed a $1.3 trillion spending bill, will restrain the spending and terminate their pet projects, when they retain the legal authority to simply force that taxing and spending down to the states?
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Some congressional Democrats are starting to push the party to consider reviving the practice of directing federal spending to pet projects, which could help them pass an infrastructure package and other major spending bills on the Democratic agenda if they are in power next year.
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Those commissions were often criticized as being too closely controlled by the mayor and too narrowly focused — sometimes with the goal of pushing pet projects or political initiatives or seeking policy changes that would have been more appropriately handled as legislation by the City Council.
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Several anti-poverty advocates allege that Hughes has, at times, made some of the same errors as his conservative counterparts, privileging his pet projects over what experts in the field think should be top priorities, and pursuing incremental reforms at the expense of bolder measures.
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It also has long been intertwined with Mr. Putin's inner circle: It has been used by the Russian government to bail out oligarchs close to Mr. Putin, and has helped fund the Russian president's pet projects, such as the Winter Olympics in Sochi in 2014.
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In a freewheeling meeting about immigration with congressional Republicans and Democrats this week, Mr. Trump lamented the gridlock that has gripped the capital in recent years and suggested that earmarks, the practice of stealthily stuffing funding for pet projects into legislation, be exhumed from the legislative graveyard.
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In that context, the release of a draft budget that proposed raising outlays for clerics' pet projects and their families while eliminating the $12 a month cash subsidy provided to 333 million Iranians and raising fuel prices by 50 percent provided the spark that ignited the protests.
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Until he found his anti-earmark religion when funding such pet projects fell out of favor, Mr. McConnell used to celebrate his spending skills, running back home to trumpet all the projects he had delivered to a state that was badly in need of federal largess.
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This is basically why France's failed Maginot Line became a modern parable: You prepare for a threat you've already faced, expecting it to behave in the exact fashion you've predicted, and then something different shows up that exploits the opportunity cost of all those self-indulgent pet projects.
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On Sunday, Merkel gave a long-desired endorsement to one of Macron's pet projects -- a joint European military "intervention force" that could take action around the world, and without relying on what European leaders have come to view as an increasingly unreliable ally in the form of Trump's America.
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And when it comes to welfare reform or other controversial initiatives dependent on simple majority votes that might emerge in 2018, the narrowed margin Jones represents will make it easier for moderate Republicans, arch-conservatives, or mavericks to take a hard line on their pet projects and peculiar demands.
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Harmful though this years-long campaign against the veracity of the shooting was, it reads as comparatively tame against Infowars's more current crop of pet projects—which have ranged from promoting the Qanon conspiracy to pushing the unfounded belief in a child sex trafficking dungeon hidden beneath a pizza restaurant.
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It is less clear what effect Tuesday's decision will have on the increased scrutiny the gifts have prompted among faculty members over the influence conservative donors — chiefly Mr. Koch, the billionaire industrialist who has given tens of millions of dollars to pet projects there — have on Virginia's largest public university.
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For some, the roundabout, a concept imported from Britain in the 1970s and quickly spread by the firm hand of the French state, embodies the unchecked spending of taxpayer money on pet projects by government officials, especially mayors, who in the 1980s took over road management from the central government.
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As the neighborhood changes fast, the Cicada clings on stubbornly, and Mr. Tan spends his spare time on pet projects, chiefly building an electric car engine that he claims will "disrupt Tesla" after he installs it into the rusty chassis of an old Volkswagen Beetle he keeps in the lot out back.
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Each of the 36 senators who voted no, including leading critics like Cruz and Senators John McCain, Marco Rubio, Mitch McConnell, and Lindsay Graham, said they strongly supported aid for New York and New Jersey, but didn't support a wasteful blank check to be used for a laundry list of other pet projects.
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In addition to his own pet projects, like reportedly soliciting cash straight-up from the Qatari government after Trump won, Cohen has played a starring role in Trump's myriad attempts to invest in shady locales abroad, among them a since-abandoned Trump Tower project in Russia Cohen was working on as late as May 2016.
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Here's an excerpt from Aja Romano's four-and-a-half star review: The Dark Crystal was one of the late Jim Henson's pet projects, one whose world he continued to build and expand for years after the film was created, and the new production has been built as faithfully as possible to that spirit.
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But what happened was, that became the catalyst for a huge amount of funding from Intel, Caterpillar, private donations, peoples' pet projects, and all these different things, and probably led to hundreds of millions of dollars of total investment by 50-something teams to actually try to get to the finish line on it.
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The above-mentioned PhD in quantum mechanics may not have the technical background that a startup critically needs, but at the same time they may also have a number of pet projects and have the capability to learn the skills on the job — and do so quickly, meaning the startups can have a short training ramp-up for them.
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"The managers who were supposed to be planning missions were instead spending time and resources on determining which missions would continue, with every manager obviously fighting over limited resources for their pet projects," said Jake Williams, also an NSA TAO employee at the time who later left to devote full time to his own cybersecurity company.
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Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE's (R-Wis.) office ripped the White House on Monday over defense spending, arguing President Obama is putting domestic "pet projects" ahead of the Pentagon if he vetoes a defense policy bill.
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Your happy hands moment was a victory for North Korea and for Russia because it gestured, literally and figuratively, your willingness to salute individuals who are part of attacks against the US or violators of international law (Kim's entourage in Singapore probably included individuals who have worked on his pet projects like developing weapons of mass destruction, cyberattacks and more).
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Mr. Trump has become such a Washington creature that he's rooting for a return to earmarks, that opaque process in which legislators direct federal spending to their home districts and pet projects, like Republican Representative Don Young of Alaska's failed "bridge to nowhere," a plan to waste more than $300 million on a mammoth bridge to an Alaska island of 50 inhabitants.
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Conservative groups are already pressuring President-elect Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE over his massive infrastructure proposal, warning him to avoid putting forward a package that adds to the deficit or favors members of Congress seeking pet projects.
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Jeff FlakeJeffrey (Jeff) Lane FlakeArpaio considering running for former sheriff job after Trump pardon Overnight Energy: Warren edges past Sanders in poll of climate-focused voters | Carbon tax shows new signs of life | Greens fuming at Trump plans for development at Bears Ears monument Carbon tax shows new signs of life in Congress MORE (Ariz.), who has openly criticized Trump in the past, quickly dismissed the idea of allowing lawmakers to fund pet projects within large spending bills.
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