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...seat Michigan's full 157-member delegation, each with half-a-vote. But because Obama had (along with John Edwards) taken himself off the ballot, figuring out how to apportion the delegates was much trickier. Following a plan endorsed by the Michigan Democratic Party, the committee voted to allot Clinton, who won 55% of the vote, 69 delegates, and Obama, who most believed was the overwhelming choice of the 40% of Michigan primary voters who chose "uncommitted", 59. If the delegates had been meted out based strictly on the actual vote Clinton should've gotten 73 delegates, and her supporters...
...there exists an even better solution, considering that students may still subvert a cheaper payment plan and sneak their guests in. Several other schools offer a system of guest meals on the meal plan. Simmons College across the river, as well as larger institutions like Villanova and Georgetown University, allot a number of guest swipes for their dining halls to their students...
...earmarks be listed on the Internet 48 hours in advance of a bill vote; and ensure that neither lawmakers nor their families financially benefit from those earmarks. It's that provision focusing on earmarks - measures that lawmakers have typically quietly inserted into legislation at the last minute to allot money for pet projects in their home states - that has drawn the loudest criticism from two conservatives, Sen. Jim DeMint, a Republican from South Carolina, and Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, as well as House Minority Leader John Boehner, who have derided the measure as mostly ineffective...
...weeks ago, House Republicans stalled the homeland security appropriations bill - one of 12 that must be passed each year to provide funding for the federal government - over a dispute concerning earmarks, those sneaky provisions lawmakers place into bills that typically allot funds for projects in their home districts. Bush, in his June 16 radio address, also focused on earmarks - and referred to the Democrats with that old-school label: "tax-and-spend." Most significantly, Bush has vowed to veto any appropriations bill that comes in above the amount he has specifically asked for. That's most of them. Come late...
...lone item on last night’s docket was the final student groups grants package of the year. It sparked objections due to its failure to allot funding to club sports and to its Eleganza fashion show appropriations, which some representatives believed were excessive...