April 11, 2008 - Last year, Congress passed some pretty tough ethics rules to curtail pork-barrel spending; then, because they are Congress, they immediately found ways to slither around those rules. Not only do we have to beware the "hard" earmarks (line items proposed in legislation), but now there are scads of h...
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