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Earmark Advocates Skeptical of Ban

By Anna Palmer
Roll Call Staff
March 10, 2010, Midnight

Just days after House Democrats and Republicans began floating the idea of a one-year moratorium on earmarks, K Streeters seem convinced that there is no appetite in Congress to shut off the spigot for lawmakers’ pet projects.

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