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April 19, 2010

AP – Southern senators masters of earmarks

Southern senators masters of earmarks HUNTSVILLE, ALA. — It’s early on a Monday in north Alabama’s “space city,” and Sen. Richard Shelby is bashing Washington at a packed town hall meeting at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center. “We’re spending a lot of money that we don’t have,” the veteran Republican tells hundreds of business…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
April 19, 2010

CL – Yes Cochran brings in a lot of ‘pork’, but that doesn’t make it ‘gov’t waste’

CL – Yes Cochran brings in a lot of ‘pork’, but that doesn’t make it ‘gov’t waste’ The group Citizens Against Government Waste released its annual critique of congressional spending and, predictably, once again takes U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran to task over $490 million in federal appropriations that it terms “pork.” Yet an examination of…