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Reid Won’t Back Ban on Earmarks

House Democrats, GOP Eye Moratorium

By John Stanton
Roll Call Staff
March 10, 2008, Midnight

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) will not back a moratorium on Congressional earmarks despite growing interest among House and Senate Republicans — as well as the House Democratic leadership — in a one-year freeze on the practice, aides said last week.

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May 23, 2012

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta testify at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing Wednesday.

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