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May 20, 2009

Senate Just Can’t Resist a Sprinkling of Earmarks

Senate Just Can’t Resist a Sprinkling of Earmarks Some habits are hard to break. Despite President Obama’s urging that Congress avoid earmarks in a pending war spending bill, the $91.3 billion measure headed for the Senate floor Tuesday includes a sprinkling of funding provisions for individual lawmakers. Most prominent is a $489 million set-aside for…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
May 20, 2009

SALTER – Medicaid program again squarely in political quagmire

SALTER – Medicaid program again squarely in political quagmire Budget negotiations at the state Capitol are slowly grinding toward stalemate as House and Senate leaders are as yet unable to overcome old arguments about the Medicaid program. Gov. Haley Barbour and the Division of Medicaid maintain the posture they’ve held consistently for the last several…