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February 18, 2010

POLITICO – Cochran and Wicker top earmarking list

POLITICO – Cochran and Wicker top earmarking list The top earmarkers in both the House and Senate are Republicans, even after the GOP has spent much of the past year making fiscal restraint and runaway government spending the centerpiece of its political message. Rep. Bill Young (R-Fla.) and Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) — both atop…
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February 18, 2010

NYT – Mississippi uses stimulus $ for job creation rather than welfare support

NYT – Mississippi uses stimulus $ for job creation rather than welfare support That finally changed when the two were hired by a paper-napkin factory here last month, placing them in the vanguard of a new approach that Mississippi and a growing number of states are taking to get people working again. Their salaries will…