"It wasn't that I wanted to sit home and collect checks for nothing," she said.

The Democrats frankly have gotten pretty fat and lazy by collecting checks for $1 million at a time.

Companies now have little incentive to give to the 527 committees, which are still able to collect six- and seven-figure checks.

The scholars must do more than collect annual checks of up to $5,000.

They collected checks for more than 24 of the next 60 months, although their use of the system was intermittent.

It was three wonderful years just collecting checks, but all the while Ruby knew it had to end sometime.

Growers of the biggest crops can collect checks from the taxpayers for producing nothing at all.

He had earned a fair sum by not planting things and by collecting checks from the government.

The 3,400 seats sold for a minimum of $500, but the party collected a number of five- and six-figure checks, Democratic officials said.

Until then, both parties are racing to collect big checks.