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March 14, 2010

SH – Cochran, Wicker deaf to GOP call for earmark freeze

WASHINGTON — Mississippi’s GOP senators, prolific users of earmarks, will not be going along with the House Republicans’ one-year moratorium on directed federal spending. “I do not agree with the efforts in the House to impose an earmark moratorium,” said U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran, vice chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. “Earmarks are not about…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
March 14, 2010

Vicksburg Post – Voters won’t toss Thompson, but Pelosi could

Voters won’t toss Thompson, but Pelosi could U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., has escaped blame in the same ethics inquiry that has at least temporarily cost U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., his Ways and Means Committee chairmanship. Both men accepted a Caribbean junket paid for by some of the big corporations they usually profess to…