Approps Vows To Cut Earmarks

By John Stanton
Roll Call Staff

March 28, 2007, 12 a.m.

Senate appropriators have warned their colleagues that there will be “significant” cuts in the money set aside for Members’ earmarks in this year’s spending bills and that the current anti-earmark climate on Capitol Hill likely will limit the types of projects that will get funding.

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