Earmark Season Arrives

Request Deadline Coincides With Fundraisers

By Tory Newmyer and Steven T. Dennis
Roll Call Staff

March 4, 2008, 7:47 p.m.

A dozen protesters carrying signs with anti-earmark slogans and pig-shaped balloons were huddled against the cold across the street from the Ritz-Carlton Pentagon City last Wednesday night when a dark sedan bearing Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) pulled up to the hotel.

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