Incumbents like Harry Reid have a long history of earmarking federal money for their home states.
Options for restricting or earmarking funds allows donors to give to causes that matter to them.
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Healing the wear and tear on overused national parks by earmarking money for adequate maintenance.
Last year, the President has called on Congress to voluntarily reform the earmarking process.
Obama has broken with many of his more conservative critics in opposing an elimination of the earmarking process.
Randy Duke Cunningham of California had gone to prison in March for earmarking intelligence spending in exchange for bribes.
So with that in mind, earmarking your donations is the best practice, right?
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This would end the earmarking of revenues, and set up a stabilisation fund.
Or maybe he has a friend on the force and is earmarking me as a future victim of unfair citations.
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They also claim that earmarking money in this way makes it harder to strengthen the health systems of those countries.
We believe these changes are necessary to reform the culture of earmarking that has led to wasteful and unjustified pork-barrel spending.
For starters, if you believe we have done away with the concept of earmarking money for special projects back home thing again.
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The plan for "earmarking" is expected to meet opposition from EU finance ministers, as governments prefer to control their own budget allocations.
There should be no earmarking of security assistance funds on grounds unrelated to the actual threat posed to the security of recipient nations.
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The Japanese government had less direct control over its corporations, but its officials co-ordinated their domestic development before earmarking sectors for overseas expansion.
Sullivan has long been an advocate of corporate tax reform so he finds earmarking the tax to pay for lower corporate tax rates appealing.
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Think carefully as you go along about what you need to be earmarking for those future bills and what you really have to spend.
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The answer is that foreign aid to Greece is the quintessential example of what is wrong with the practice of earmarking security assistance on political grounds.
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But earmarking has also given recipients of taxes a vested interest in the status quo, and made them even more influential than they would be anyway.
Different government factions favour earmarking the revenue from these partnerships for education or infrastructure, whereas other officials want it to go into the general federal coffers.
Even if Winning Our Future were earmarking his contributions for support ads, his money still enables the super PAC to spend other donations on attack ads.
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If Congress continues the process of earmarking in report language, those projects will have to compete for federal dollars before funding is provided based on merit.
MEPs were united in demanding "earmarking" of the revenues, to ensure that member states invest in improving the environmental standards of vehicles and develop alternative transport infrastructure.
For one, it is bringing in new investors: New Jersey's State Investment Council recently decided to give private equity a go, earmarking 5% of its assets to the sector.
After seeing the economy collapse by 60% of GDP during the overthrow and the ensuing chaos, Arabia Monitor is earmarking growth of 116% this year and a still rapid 16.5% in 2013.
Evidently, he is trying to euchre members of the House of Representatives into earmarking funds for the federal government to purchase a state prison in Thompson, Illinois that his home state can no longer afford to operate.
In July, the green paper on proposals for a London mayor discussed, albeit in oblique terms, another form of earmarking the possibility of taxing non-residential parking and using road charges as a way of financing the capital's future government.
All too often, a charity offers the perfect cover for funnelling what are often quite small sums into the wrong hands - whether by the allocation and over-invoicing of local contracts which may be impossible to oversee, or simply by earmarking funds for projects which, in fact, simply do not exist.
So, when the Senate and the House of Representatives agreed to end the earmarking process a few years ago, it certainly appeared to be a positive step in the direction of gaining a little control over wasteful government spending and a move towards bringing a bit of honestly to the process of government.
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Hence, virtually all benefits can be paid out of revenues without having to borrow more money from the public, and the relatively small Social Security deficits expected during the coming decade (3% of payroll tax revenues) can and should be covered by earmarking enough general revenues to redeem the Trust Fund IOUs Congress left behind when it looted Social Security during the past 25 years.
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