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WASHINGTON - New ethics rules designed to cleanse spending bills of questionable pet projects have done little to quench lawmakers' thirst for them. Demand is up and the battle for them is as fierce as ever.
While House Democrats are holding to their promise to cut in half the price tag on back-home projects, familiar poobahs of pork, but both parties have larded spending bills with more than 10,000 of them totaling at least $10 billion. Many more are to come.See the full content of this document
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Lawmakers Still Hungry for Pork
The 435 members of the House together requested more than 32,000 pet projects this year - several thousand more than in 2006, when scand...
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