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• Earmarks and Limitations in Appropriations Bills.
• Earmarks and limitations are two devices regularly used in annual appropriations acts to restrict, or more precisely direct, the availability of funds for specific projects or purposes of an account. ...
• Earmarks.
• Some earmarks are included in the text of appropriations measures, floor amendments, and conference reports to such measures. If enacted, these earmarks are legally binding. ...
• Most earmarks, however, are included in the Senate and House Appropriations Committees' reports explaining a measure as reported. Earmarks are also frequently included in the managers' joint explanatory statement (or managers' statement) that accompanies the conference report. ...
• As with earmarks, limitations included the text of the legislation is legally binding; limitations provided only in the committee reports and managers' statements are not legally binding, but may have effect. ...

• R&D Earmarks in the FY 2004 Budget.
• R&D Earmarks Total $1. ...
• Congressional Earmarks for R&D by Agency and Program.
• (This analysis is part of a AAAS effort to enumerate congressionally designated, performer-specific R&D projects not appearing in agency budget requests (earmarks) in the FY 2004 appropriations process. The data in this analysis highlight AAAS interpretations of R&D earmarks in the final FY 2004 appropriations bills. ...
•  - R&D earmarks total $1. ...
• Four agencies (USDA, $220 million; NASA, $194 million; DOE, $284 million; and DOD, $825 million) receive 80 percent of the total R&D earmarks, while NIH and NSF remain earmark-free. In some programs, earmarks make up 1 out of every 5 program dollars. ...
• - FY 2004 earmarks are up 32 percent from $1. ...
• FY 2004 R&D Earmarks in FY 2004 Appropriations: Earmarks Up Substantially .
• Hidden in the omnibus bill and already-enacted FY 2004 appropriations bills are numerous congressionally designated, performer-specific R&D projects (R&D earmarks). ... For R&D earmarks, the FY 2004 total sees a sharp increase after a leveling off in FY 2003. ...
• Within federal appropriations for R&D are R&D earmarks of unrequested, congressionally designated performer-specific R&D projects contained in legislative language or committee report language attached to appropriations bills. ... As Table A and Figure 1 show, R&D earmarks total $1. ...
• - R&D earmarks total $1. ... Department of Agriculture (USDA; $220 million), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA; $194 million), the Department of Energy (DOE; $284 million) and the Department of Defense (DOD; $825 million) receive 80 percent of the total R&D earmarks.

• 1 Million in Earmarks for Mott Community College.
•   Mott Community College will use these earmarks to fund the Workforce Development Institute for Manufacturing Simulation in Flint, MI. ...

• com Education earmarks clog budget bill.
•     "It is going to be a significant challenge to process and monitor all of these earmarks," Susan Aspey, the department's press secretary, told The Washington Times. ...
•     The largest spending mandate is $20 million to expand a "school-reform" program called Project GRAD USA, which has its headquarters in Houston and has received three successive $20 million earmarks, thanks to Rep. ...
•     The ELC has operated with congressional earmarks totaling $23. ... The spending bill gives ELC six earmarks for an additional $9. ...
•     The current congressional earmarks mandate $5 million for ELC's further administration of FTL, $3 million to expand the school-technology program in Iowa, $1 million in Alaska, $500,000 in Tennessee, $100,000 in Rhode Island and $72,000 in West Virginia. ...
• Rebarber declined to disclose who lobbied for the current ELC earmarks and who in Congress ensured they were included in the omnibus spending bill. ... Regula did not respond to inquiries about the earmarks. ...

• Congress earmarks $3 million for WMU research efforts.
• The following WMU earmarks are included in H. ...
• Two other WMU earmarks that Upton helped secure in the spending bill are for projects that also have the potential to benefit citizens around the nation.

• Bush administration earmarks $5m for any information on murder of Americans.

• OSSA Earmarks over 8. ...

• GOP punishes foes, strips more earmarks.
• More than 100 House members of both parties, have been denied any portion of the $750 million in district earmarks in the Veterans Affairs (VA), housing and Urban Development (HUD) and independent agencies spending bill.
• The denial of the earmarks parallels an earlier decision by Rep. ...
• Taken together, the denial of earmarks in the two spending bills codifies a Republican plan to instill a Pavlovian response into lawmakers: If you vote against a bill, don’t expect any earmarks.
• “I can’t say for certain if all earmarks were taken out of VA-HUD, but we came pretty close,” said a Republicans Appropriations Committee staffer.
• However, both Republicans and Democrats emphasized that the $20 million was only a fraction of what is usually designated for earmarks in the two bills.
• Of the nine who voted against final passage, none received earmarks, said an appropriations aide.

• Legislature earmarks $300,000 for adolescent compulsive gambling program.

• UN AGENCY EARMARKS $1 MILLION FOR NEEDS ASSESSMENTS.

• Cowed Dems exchange yes vote for earmarks.
• Many House Democrats are expected to vote for the Labor, Health and Human Services and Education appropriations bill today to secure the earmarks they were denied last year as punishment for voting “no. ...
• Last fall, in a bid to impress GOP leaders, Labor, HHS and Education Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Ralph Regula (R-Ohio) axed nearly all of Democrats’ designated earmarks in conference.
• ) would vote for the bill, or if Obey would be the highest ranking Democrat to support the measure to provide political cover for rank-and-file members hungry for district earmarks. ...
• Last year, many Democrats were convinced that Republicans would not follow through on their threats and actually deny all Democratic districts earmarks in the massive spending package. ...

• Nonprofits Disappointed by Earmarks Look to '04 By: Jim Dornan, 12/24/03 After the unprecedented events of 2002's Congressional Appropriations process, which dragged on well into 2003, we learned to be prepared for anything. ...
• Unfortunately, as it currently stands, many nonprofits were disappointed this year by the number and amount of line-item earmarks awarded to charitable organizations. ...
• To complicate matters even further, Congressman Ralph Regula (R-OH), Chairman of the Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Subcommittee, stated in October that the Subcommittee would not approve any earmarks for Democratic Members of the House of Representatives. ...

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