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Sen. Joni Ernst catches it in Senate, strips it from bill
Published: Friday, January 9th, 2026 @ 8:49 am
By: John Steed
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Members of the Texas legislature introduced legislation that would earmark $40 million in state funds to support Department of Public Safety border security operations as well as operations in Colony Ridge, a massive land development that has become a magnet for illegal immigrants.
Published: Thursday, November 23rd, 2023 @ 3:08 pm
By: Daily Wire
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One of the sticking points in the state budget negotiations is the $1.4 billion proposed in the Senate version for NCInnovation, a private, non-profit created by some NC business leaders in 2018, aimed at providing grants for applied research at select UNC-system universities.
Published: Friday, October 20th, 2023 @ 11:31 am
By: Carolina Journal
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McConnell backed bill would neuter new GOP House majority for first year
Published: Monday, December 19th, 2022 @ 8:47 am
By: John Steed
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Country star Naomi Judd reportedly left full control of her estate and fortune, believed to be worth $25 million, to her husband Larry Strickland, earmarking nothing for her two daughters Ashley and Wynonna Judd.
Published: Friday, August 12th, 2022 @ 5:01 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) plans to veto tens of millions of dollars that were earmarked for the Tampa Bay Rays after the team released an anti-Second Amendment statement following a couple of recent tragedies.
Published: Tuesday, June 7th, 2022 @ 7:28 am
By: Daily Wire
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Former Attorney General William Barr, asked by Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade why 51 intelligence officials published a letter just weeks before the 2020 election claiming that the New York Post story about Hunter Biden’s laptop “has the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation,”
Published: Sunday, April 17th, 2022 @ 2:24 am
By: Daily Wire
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Last week Congress passed H.R. 2471, a $1.5 trillion spending omnibus package to fund the government through September. It was loaded with earmarks costing $9.7 billion.
Published: Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022 @ 10:25 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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RINOs also support pork
Published: Friday, March 11th, 2022 @ 7:08 pm
By: John Steed
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Joni Ernst and Tom Schatz write for National Review Online about the disturbing return of congressional earmarks.
Published: Saturday, March 6th, 2021 @ 10:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina’s state government began its 2020-21 fiscal year with $1.5 billion in cash left over from last year plus another $1.8 billion in rainy-day funds and other earmarked reserves.
Published: Friday, September 18th, 2020 @ 3:28 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The state budget for FY 2018-19 contains nearly 170 line items totaling $30 million that are highly inappropriate or outright pork
Published: Thursday, June 7th, 2018 @ 12:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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This month, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3), a long-time warrior against wasteful spending, continued to speak out against the potential of Congress bringing back pork barrel spending projects, often know as earmarks
Published: Thursday, April 19th, 2018 @ 4:46 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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This afternoon, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) spoke out strongly against the prospect of Congress bringing back pork barrel spending, commonly known as earmarks
Published: Tuesday, January 9th, 2018 @ 6:33 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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High-performance materials manufacturer DSM Dyneema will fund an EC Scholar award to be earmarked for an engineering student beginning the 2016-2017 academic year.
Published: Wednesday, March 25th, 2015 @ 2:22 pm
By: ECU News Services
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At this time, the budget is still under discussion at the North Carolina General Assembly. The Senate offered a compromise to the House of $171 million to be earmarked toward their top priorities of Medicaid and teacher assistants.
Published: Sunday, July 13th, 2014 @ 12:40 pm
By: Bill Cook
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F.H. Buckley, a law professor at George Mason University, recently has published a timely and comparative study: The Once and Future King: The Rise of Crown Government in America. In it, Buckley compares and examines past and current political systems in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada.
Published: Thursday, May 29th, 2014 @ 9:22 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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It is rumored that the property initially earmarked for the incentive land grant to P&G/A&E Manufacturing has not qualified for the state funded sewer grant necessary to improve the property for the construction of A&E's 50,000 sq. ft. building.
Published: Wednesday, March 7th, 2012 @ 4:36 am
By: Warren Smith
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