...the whitewashing euphemism that politicians use to refer to pork projects. Arizona Rep. Jeff Flake, a strong Republican critic of earmarks, was questioning a $1 million request for money to be given to something called the Center for Instrumented...
...the U.S.-led forces. Obama's speech was his most aggressive attempt to answer the questions mounting from Republican critics, his own party and war-weary Americans -- chiefly, why the U.S. was immersed in war in another Muslim nation...
...consumers' insurance advocate. GOP lawmakers adamantly opposed the bill establishing the office in 1999. Its Republican critics, including Mr. Oxendine, have argued it was a strategy by Mr. Barnes to reduce Mr. Oxendine's authority...
ATLANTA -- A Republican critic of Georgia's education reform defeated a teachers association executive for the state school superintendent's seat. Republican...
...Councilman C.D. Morris, received 280 votes, or 28.5 percent. Cox defeats Christmas for superintendent ATLANTA - A Republican critic of Georgia's education reform defeated a teachers association executive for the state school superintendent's...
...less than half of the $9.8 million in pork projects shoved into the budget while it was in the House. Instead, Republican critics hammered at the level of spending throughout the budget, which has escalated dramatically in the past decade...
...crime legislation Mr. Biden helped design seven years ago, envisioned putting 100,000 officers on the street. Republican critics, however, said the program came nowhere near that number, and the Bush administration is eyeing cuts in the program...
...And airlines don't serve Macon, for example. Though he has made similar tours every year since his election, Republican critics say he has geared this year's trips toward shoring up political support and preparing himself for his re-election...
...of a felony. "Don't throw stones if you live in a glass house," Mr. Taylor said at the time, referring to Republican critics of the Democrats' record on ethics reform. "What we found in the Senate was very little real interest from the...
...down the national debt as a way of shoring up Social Security. He would do this through a complicated process that Republican critics have charged amounts to double-counting $2.3 trillion of the money. Those funds are already earmarked for...
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