Assembly Democrats complained that the program had strayed from its antipoverty roots to become a corporate giveaway.

"This is a classic case of a corporate welfare-style giveaway," said Scott Harshbarger, president of Common Cause, a public affairs lobbying organization.

That legislation was a corporate giveaway to the credit card industry; it was not supported by a majority of the American people, and it has negatively affected many of her constituents.

I didn't vote against the minimum wage and for corporate giveaways and then turn around when it came time to make television commercials and say exactly the opposite.

Travel is the thing, she insisted, and others at the show tended to agree: free trips are right up there with golf and electronic toys as hot corporate giveaways.

Congress, which has managed to consider pork-barrel spending and corporate giveaways, should be able to find the time to pass such a vital law in this session.

He plans to nick corporate giveaways by only about $25 billion, the same as the G.O.P.

Representative-elect Ellsworth: "Bad trade agreements and corporate giveaways are just sweetheart deals for big corporations that don't need them. "

This budget plan would also scrap scandalous corporate giveaways like the 1872 mining law that forced the Government to sell Federal land with $10 billion in gold deposits last year for $10,000.

Some opponents charged that the project was a corporate giveaway subsidized by taxpayers, favoring the Padres organization and developers.