Most chairmen and leaders don't agree that they're the worst offenders when it comes to earmarks.
He says just because earmarks have been misused doesn't mean they should be eliminated.
One looking at the relationship between one particularly powerful member of Congress and lobbyists seeking earmarks.
Since I became governor, we cut more than 250 earmarks from our state budget.
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Last year, I asked you to voluntarily cut the number and cost of earmarks in half.
But New York Republican Rep. Peter King rejected criticisms of pet projects, or earmarks.
It is a plan that's been put together without earmarks or the usual pork-barrel spending.
Safer: 13, 000 earmarks this year alone, compared with only 4, 000 a dozen years ago.
But Pelosi said she does believe Congress should cut back on the number of earmarks.
John McCain, R-Arizona, and Tom Coburn, R-Oklahoma, that would have narrowed the spending on earmarks.
The Bridge to Nowhere became such an embarrassing symbol of waste, Congress ultimately gave up earmarks.
Our analysis compares earmarks to tax collected in the state on a per-capita basis.
The earmarks of his speech were sagacious brevity, theatrical elegance, and understated humor.
Several members of Obama's administration served in Congress and have earmarks listed on the bill.
We didn't get a lot of credit for it, but there were no earmarks in that.
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He also got a bit brushed back on the earmarks thing from his own conference.
The earmarks of a Prokhorov-backed platform are emerging: Western-leaning, pushing free markets, free speech and financial transparency.
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They will deal whatever they have to get earmarks-not-called-earmarks for their states to ensure their own re-election.
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Then came a new scandal, legislative earmarks, lawmakers writing special provisions to finance pet projects back home.
My understanding is Eric Cantor today said that he wanted to see a moratorium on earmarks continuing.
His speeches are peppered with pledges to get rid of earmarks (spending tagged for politicians' pet projects).
"Lawmakers who vote for earmarks end up voting for large spending increases elsewhere as well, " he says.
Earmarks have tripled in number over the last decade and have increased spending by billions of dollars.
Representative JEFF FLAKE (Republican, Arizona): We know from the Duke Cunningham case that earmarks are really the currency of corruption.
The spending bill before Congress contains 9, 000 earmarks, accounting for a tiny fraction of the bill's total cost.
All right, so even if we eliminated all foreign aid and all earmarks, it doesn't solve our problem.
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Earmarks are symbolically potent but fiscally inconsequential, since they mostly parcel out spending rather than alter its level.
This is why Republican appropriators often side with Democrats to defend earmarks and other types of wasteful spending.
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Ryan Alexander, the president of the Taxpayers for Common Sense, pointed out that not all earmarks are bad.
Among the proposals: Cutting tax expenditures, raising the retirement age, curbing Social Security benefits and eliminating earmarks.
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