In recent budgets, President Bush has repeatedly proposed to withhold money from such Congressional earmarks.

She is in favor of a balanced budget amendment, opposes Congressional earmarks, and supports a simplification of the tax code.

On November 4, 2007, the New York Times reported Concurrent Technologies Corporation had received $226 million in Congressional earmarks since 2004.

Even though Congressional earmarks account for less than one percent of the federal budget, they have appropriately drawn public ire.

Senate Democratic leaders on Friday embraced a proposal to shed light on the murky practice of Congressional earmarks, reversing themselves after trying to block an almost identical measure the day before.

Washington State University wheat researchers lost their main source of financing in the brouhaha over Congressional earmarks.

Congressional earmarks are often loosely defined as guarantees of federal expenditures to particular recipients in appropriations-related documents.

US$1.34 million in funding was provided through three Congressional earmarks.

Hayworth also had difficulty rallying conservative backing due to his past support for Congressional earmarks and for his past associations with lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

Hensarling has continually pushed Congress to enact a one-year moratorium on all Congressional earmarks, saying that the process needs to be overhauled.