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  • verb Present participle of earmark.

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Examples

  • The term earmarking, as used in this report, refers to the process by which congressional restrictions are placed on how an agency is to spend appropriated funds.

    Npr Report Agency For Internat L Development Pt ITY National Archives 1994

  • Guys, I know Democrats are way more corrupt, but indulging in your own earmarking is how Republicans lost power in the first place.

    That’s How They Lost Power In The First Place! « Tai-Chi Policy 2009

  • But the U.S. budget process has a lot of flaws and I see no real reason to think that earmarking is high on the list.

    Matthew Yglesias » Is The Country Paying a Price for Anti-Earmark Fever? 2009

  • Bush failed on this, allowing Republicans to run rampant in earmarking excess, and Obama has if anything been even worse on this dimension.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Feature Not a Bug 2010

  • Bush failed on this, allowing Republicans to run rampant in earmarking excess, and Obama has if anything been even worse on this dimension.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Feature Not a Bug 2010

  • After six years of a Republican Congress earmarking truckloads of pork for home districts, much of it for Bridge-to-Nowhere projects, Bush has suddenly decided – the day before the Democrats take control – that earmarking is an outrage?

    mjh's blog — 2007 — January 2007

  • The Christian Science Monitor finds, not surprisingly, that the practice of earmarking is “ingrained in Capitol Hill culture. ” Case in point: Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) “is attempting a major expansion of the FBI in his state, earmarking millions of dollars for Huntsville facilities the White House did not ask for. ”

    Think Progress » ThinkFast: July 25, 2006 2006

  • The Christian Science Monitor finds, not surprisingly, that the practice of earmarking is “ingrained in Capitol Hill culture. ” Case in point: Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) “is attempting a major expansion of the FBI in his state, earmarking millions of dollars for Huntsville facilities the White House did not ask for. ”

    Think Progress » ThinkFast: July 25, 2006 2006

  • He also did bring up the so-called earmarking, which is the pork-barrel projects, and his opposition to it.

    CNN Transcript Jan 31, 2006 2006

  • Paul argued that earmarking is actually more transparent than the regular budget process, and Cao called the GOP’s stance “shortsighted.”

    Think Progress » ThinkFast: April 1, 2010 2010

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