Synonyms for earmarks
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1. List of paraphrases for "earmarks":

   allocates

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1. Pat Toomey:

   The indefensible return of earmarks means congressional Democrats will shower billions of taxpayer dollars on all kinds of radical left wing causes.

2. Jeff Flake:

   A lot of people say [earmarks] grease the skids of legislating, that it helps us pass legislation, but it is not worth it.

3. Dick Shelby:

   If you don't want earmarks, don't ask for them.

4. Pat Toomey:

   Earmarks, which is why Speaker Pelosi likes them so much,become the currency by which the leadership buys votes for unrelated legislation, which is terrible.

5. Tom Schatz:

   Mostly because members of Congress vote for bills like the omnibus that they might not ordinarily support but for the earmarks, inequitable, although we have not analyzed exactly who got them this time, the last time there was a list of members of Congress receiving earmarks, 51 percent of the earmarks and 61 percent of the money went to the members of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, and they only constituted about 15 percent of the entire Congress.