Stevens Adds Millions in Earmarks to Omnibus
- By John Stanton
- Roll Call Staff
- Dec. 18, 2007, Midnight
Despite scrutiny from investigators representing at least five federal departments and agencies, a midsummer raid of his home by law enforcement officials and a home-state governor increasingly hostile to earmarks, GOP Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska is showing no signs of abandoning earmarks and directed spending, netting interests in the state more than $88 million in this year’s omnibus, according to a review by Roll Call.
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