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Earmarks Still Roil GOP

By Lauren W. Whittington
Roll Call Staff
Jan. 29, 2008, Midnight

As President Bush prepared to launch a direct assault on earmarks in Monday night’s State of the Union address, House Republican leaders continued to deal with the fallout from last week’s Conference retreat during which a substantive discussion of reforming the process took center stage.

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