Catchword: air-dropping

Filed under: English, Politics, Jargon, New or Nonce

Part of speech: n.

Quotation: Obey originally said House earmarks would be kept secret until they were inserted into the conference bill. By then, members cannot change them and can only vote up or down on the bill. Since the passage of earmarks is then all but a done deal, critics refer to it as “air-dropping.”…The “air-dropping” plans elicited howls that Democrats were reverting to the same cloak-and-dagger process that typified the practices of Cunningham and former lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who once referred to earmark-laden appropriations bills as “favor factories.”

Article or document title:
“Obey shines light on earmarking process, but GOP labels move a hollow gesture” (URL)

Author:
Mike Soraghan, Jackie Kucinich

Article, document, publication, web site:
The Hill

Publishing location:
Washington, D.C.

Date of publication:
June 12, 2007

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