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March 3, 2009

How to determine an earmark’s worth

The Hattiesburg American Editorial, 3/3/9 When is an earmark not pork? When it is in your own back yard. It’s always the other guy’s earmarks that are wasteful, disgraceful and an affront to taxpayers. So it goes when it comes to the $410 billion omnibus spending bill that the House passed last week and is…
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March 3, 2009

Barbour objects to $50M in stimulus funds

The Clarion-Ledger, 3/3/9 Despite Gov. Haley Barbour’s criticisms of the $787 billion stimulus package signed into law by President Barack Obama, Mississippi is expected to accept most of the money the plan would provide the state. Barbour has indicated he will reject about $50 million of the more than $2.3 billion in stimulus money for…