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But since all earmarks add up to less than $20 billion a year, that will not yield much.

While Dennis did not reveal his exact trading systems to the public, his performance data had earmarks of trend-following trading.

The President is committed to making sure that this infrastructure program is fully paid for, and free of earmarks.

"Earmarks used to be a pure bonus for lawmakers, " says Steve Ellis, vice president of Taxpayers for Common Sense, a watchdog group.

This earmarks a lump sum of $8 billion, plus $1 billion a year, to help construct fast rail corridors around America (see map).

I also asked you to stop slipping earmarks into committee reports that never even come to a vote.

His penchant for earmarks eventually led to political trouble as the process became increasingly unpopular with the public.

John McCain's attempt to reduce earmarks in an omnibus spending bill was defeated in the Senate.

Earmarks have become a symbol of a broken Washington, and an entire lobbying industry has been created around them.

To help pay for them, he would cut earmarks, those special interest projects added to spending bills.

The company earmarks 1 percent of the previous year's pretax profits to give to charity.

In total, earmarks represent less than two percent of the federal spending bill.

The projects, commonly known as earmarks, cost billions of dollars.

Earmarks are symbolically potent but fiscally inconsequential, since they mostly parcel out spending rather than alter its level.

Fees in California-which earmarks these revenues for various environmental, educational and other causes-amount to less than $100.

In Nevada, Republican Sharron Angle, backed by "tea party" activists, has charged that Senator Reid's earmarks wasted federal dollars.

There will be - let me say it again - there will be no earmarks in this economic recovery plan.

But this one has been astonishing: the number of earmarks has shot up tenfold since the Republicans took the House in 1994.

McCain acknowledges that earmark spending is a bipartisan problem; about 40 percent of the earmarks came from fellow Republicans.

"President Obama should keep his campaign promise to reduce earmarks or eliminate them altogether, " Smith said.

And I'm going to make sure politics doesn't add to our deficit, by vetoing any bill that contains earmarks.

Congressional leaders, he says, use earmarks as bribes to get the lower ranks to support flawed spending proposals.

His speeches are peppered with pledges to get rid of earmarks (spending tagged for politicians' pet projects).

And we've put in place higher standards of transparency by putting as much information as possible on earmarks. gov.

Earmarks like these represent a relatively small part of overall federal spending.

The new tough stance on earmarks will boost GOP prospects in midterm elections, House Republican leaders say.

On the stump, Mr Obama had railed against earmarks and promised to scrutinise bills "line by line" to eliminate them.

But the fact is that eliminating earmarks alone is not a recipe for how we're going to get the middle class back on track.

Influence-peddling and deal-making are part of politics the world over but the earmarks system is peculiarly American.

That bill contains thousands of earmarks.

Still, Republicans aim to recast the image of overspending on earmarks that they developed during their 12 years in control of the House.

As a percentage of federal spending, we have cut earmarks by half in this bill.

Both Ms. Angle and Mr. Rossi have called for an outright ban on earmarks.

One such Republican is Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama who says the inclusion of earmarks should not impede funding the government.

The package, aimed at lifting interbank lending, earmarks 400 billion euros for guarantees on securities held by German banks.

They have found common cause in attacking "earmarks" , the pet projects that lawmakers insert into bills.

As President, time and again, I've called for new limitations on earmarks. We've reduced the cost of earmarks by over $3 billion.

I have maintained a no-earmarks policy throughout my time of service in Congress.

The bill, which includes an estimated 438 earmarks , is the first Senate legislation to require the disclosure of all earmark sponsors.

The 2008 budget will allow earmarks, but only after new rules are put in place that will require politicians to attach their names to them.

President Obama is expected to lay out guidelines this morning to overhaul earmarks.

DobbsThe company earmarks 1 percent of the previous year's pretax profits to give to charity.

Two Democratic senators said they would now not vote for the bill because of the earmarks.

As President, time and again, I've called for new limitations on earmarks.

Last year, I asked you to voluntarily cut the number and cost of earmarks in half.

But the budget is estimated to contain almost 8, 000 "earmarks, " worth $5. 5 billion.

But let's be clear: Earmarks account for $18 billion in last year's budget.

Earmarks are spending provisions that are often slipped into bills at the last minute, so they never get debated or discussed

Senators Debate Merits of Earmarks in Spending Bill