Sentences with phrase «with legislative earmarks»
The two have established a joint investigative task force to investigate government spending, including projects funded with legislative earmarks, plus state contracts and pension fraud.
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It wasn't always this way for the Senate, which from the 1960s until the late 2000s had been a relatively sleep chamber controlled by Republicans endowed with virtual fiefdoms of legislative earmarks.
ALBANY — Except for an occasional break to rest his hand, Gov. David A. Paterson spent most of Thursday vetoing thousands of legislative earmarks as lawmakers prepared to depart for the Fourth of July holiday with the state's budget incomplete and negotiations at a near halt.