#earmark

In the world of commercial speech, tobacco advertising bears the earmarks of an endangered species. ↗

— Jef I. Richards

#bears #commercial #earmarks #endangered #endangered species

I'd be a lot more excited about eliminating earmarks if we reduced all of the spending by whatever the earmarks used to be, but nobody's, apparently, going to talk about doing that. ↗

— Roy Blunt

#apparently #doing #earmarks #eliminating #excited

We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely. ↗

— Barack Obama

#go #i #line #make #money

The earmark favor factory needs to be boarded up and demolished, not turned over to new management that may or may not have a better eye for earmarks with 'merit.' ↗

— Tom Coburn

#demolished #earmark #earmarks #eye #factory

I think I'm the last Democrat left in the Senate after Russ Feingold was defeated that won't take earmarks. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#defeated #democrat #earmarks #i #i think

Earmarks have become a symbol of a Congress that has broken faith with the people. This earmark ban shows the American people we are listening and we are dead serious about ending business as usual in Washington. ↗

— John Boehner

#american #american people #ban #become #broken

House and Senate Republicans are now united in adopting earmark bans. We hope President Obama will follow through on his support for an earmark ban by pressing Democratic leaders to join House and Senate Republicans in taking this critical step to restore public trust. ↗

— John Boehner

#ban #critical #democratic #democratic leaders #earmark