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Bush Squeezed on Earmarks

White House Mulls Options

Under pressure from anti-earmark conservatives on one side and senior appropriators on the other, the White House has remained tight-lipped about whether President Bush will end up addressing the more than 10,000 earmarks included in the fiscal 2008 omnibus appropriations bill.

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Rep. Michele Bachmann, who recently suspended her campaign for the presidency, speaks at the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 9.
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