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Do Earmarks Matter?

Multiple Authors | Fri, 11/06/2009 - 6:31pm | Congressional earmarks, John McCain, pork-barrel spending | 2 comments

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Making fun of earmarked Congressional spending is easy, feel-good entertainment. In this regard Sen. John McCain’s Twitter feed, in which he reels off outrageous examples of pork-barrel spending (we especially liked “$300,000 for Texas A&M for ‘Texas Height Modernization’“) is a laugh factory.
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