Earmarks are funds provided by the Congress for projects, programs, or grants where the purported congressional direction (whether in statutory text, report language, or other communication) circumvents otherwise applicable merit-based or competitive allocation processes, ... Estimates of FY 2009 Appropriations Earmarks...
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1 Walter Kravitz, Congressional Quarterly’s American Congressional Dictionary: Earmarks; There is not a single specific definition of the term earmark accepted by all practitioners and observers of the appropriations process, nor is there a standard earmark practice across all 13 regular appropriations bills.
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www.rules.house.gov/Archives/98-518.pdf
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Earmark (politics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In United States politics an earmark is a congressional provision that directs approved funds to be spent on specific projects or that directs specific exemptions from taxes or mandated fees. Earmar...
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Thus, House Appropriations Chairman Obey has launched a counterattack on the White House. ... Second, "It is unfair to compare earmark requests made by the President with requests made by Members of Congress because the projects Bush asks for undergo a rigorous review process that does not apply to congressional requests."[16]
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www.heritage.org/Research/Budget/wm1541.cfm
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Congressional promises to clean up the earmark mess and its associated corruption got off to a strong start in 2007 when the House of Representatives and Senate agreed to strike from the fiscal year (FY) 2007 budget about 10,000 earmarks that had been proposed by the previous Congress.
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www.heritage.org/Research/Budget/bg2016.cfm
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The Fiasco of Congressional Earmark Reform ... That would keep the herd of congressional supplicants to the Appropriations Committees and the "leadership" of those committees all happy and satisfied.
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www.counterpunch.org/wheeler03212006.html
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The research framework we're providing asks you specific questions about the recipient of the earmark and the member who sponsored it, and provides links to the sources of information you can search for answers. ... Senate Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations, FY2008...
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earmarkwatch.org/
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2006/07/02 - More and more towns are putting lobbyists on the payroll to tap federal tax money through earmarks (those special appropriations that make their way into omnibus bills in Congress). ... But Mr. Young — a Republican who was then the all-powerful chairman of the Appropriations Committee and, as his lobbyist...
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www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20060702_lobbyists...
www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20060702_lobbyists_federal_appropriations/
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For many years, the process of Congressional funding requests - sometimes known as "earmarks" - lacked transparency and accountability. Since assuming the majority in 2007, For the last two years, every earmark approved by Congress included public disclosure of which Member(s) requested the money, which entity received...
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www.house.gov/apps/list/press/mi12_levin/PR032909.shtml
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