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Earmarkers Feast on Pork Before Diet Looms
In the waning lame duck session Democrats push a 1 900 page omnibus to wrap up over 1 2 trillion in unfinished business. The bill packs thousands of earmarks backed by Democrats and Republicans alike drawing bipartisan criticism from Sen John McCain who calls it a betrayal of voter pledges against pork barrel spending. The package funds Cabinet agencies for the budget year and 158 billion dollars for Afghanistan and Iraq.
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