"federal" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- While Palin was Mayor of Wasilla, the town paid a lobbying firm $24,000 to $36,000 per year to help secure federal earmarks for the town.
- In the 2008 budget year, Palin requested around $255 million in federal earmarks, and her requests for the 2009 budget total $197 million.
- The Earmark Transparency Act creates an easily searchable database of all federal earmarks, both authorizing and appropriating.
- Authorization to bond for planning money for the project was included in an April 2008 state bond bill, and $25 million in federal earmarks have been obtained.
- Private donations paid for $3.5 million of the cost, while federal earmarks contributed another $1.2 million.
- Funding for the $10 million renovation came from federal earmarks and grants from state, city, and private organizations.
- As for Vandalia, 92 percent of its $31.5 million in grants since 1999 arrived through federal earmarks.
- We need to get back to the conservative principles of controlling spending, particularly when it comes to federal earmarks, commonly referred to as "pork barrel" projects.
- Holding the latter position has drawn criticism of a conflict of interest of her husband, as he directed over $2 million dollars in federal earmarks between 2001 and the present.
- As the Washington Post reported, Silver's efforts in the capital helped Wasilla, a town of sixty-seven hundred residents, secure twenty-seven million dollars in federal earmarks.
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