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'They should act as additional or supplementary funding, necessary to support upscaling of innovative programmes or fund crucial lifesaving medicines and treatment,' Galen Centre authors Azrul Mohd Khalib and Jade See said in their paper titled 'Innovate for health: Earmarking sin tax to support Malaysia's NCD response'.

To say that Congress should not be entrusted with the responsibility of earmarking because of the potential for corruption undercuts the constitutional principle that the legislature decides how to spend funds.

Anti-spending advocates assert that earmarking continues.

potential explanations of why earmarking might occur and several

Greater transparency in earmarking practices would send the message that Congress is at least trying to spend our money responsibly.

Under the earmarking process, lawmakers slip allocations of money targeted to specific programs or organizations into larger bills, often enormous measures appropriating money for huge federal agencies.

Vitter has taken heat from educational, religious and civil rights groups for earmarking money in a fiscal 2008 spending bill for the Louisiana Family Forum, "to develop a plan to promote better science education."

By Richard Simon WASHINGTON--Tensions between Republicans and Democrats over the controversial practice of earmarking funds for pet projects sparked a finger-pointing clash on the House floor earlier in May and an unusual attempt Tuesday to reprimand a powerful--and sometimes volatile--Democratic congressman.

The increases in earmarking among federal R & D agencies have coincided with declining R & D budgets.

Ken Silverstein ["The Great American Pork Barrel," Report, July] did an excellent job of exposing the absurdity and dangers of the congressional earmarking process.

The benefits of the earmarking process were clearly apparent in the most recent appropriations bill to emerge from Congress.

Earmarking funds is perfectly acceptable to UNICEF, which then can divert funds originally earmarked for the project to more general purposes.

Her goals are to set aside money in another tax-efficient retirement plan (she currently contributes the maximum allowed to her 401(k) at $10,500 a year) and to get an early start earmarking money for her son.

A further recommendation might be the author's prescient conclusion that, once the pressure of deficit reduction abated, congressional earmarking would balloon once again.