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December 15, 2010

Washington Post op-ed goes after Palazzo for D.C. dinner

Forget Tea Party rhetoric – pork barrel politics is back And the parties continue. Rep.-elect Steven Palazzo (R-Miss.), for example, told supporters on his campaign Web site: “I intend to take our voice and shout it loudly to the Washington, D.C., bureaucrats and politicians to make sure they know that we want legislation reflective of…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
December 15, 2010

AJC – Wicker and Cochran top earmark requests in Omnibus bill

The Omnibus Arrives I have been talking about it for weeks, and yesterday it was finally released. A 1,924 page behemoth known in the lexicon of Capitol Hill as the “Omnibus” budget bill, chock full of thousands of home state budget earmarks. Even though it was championed by Democrats, the Omnibus is filled with earmarks…