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GOP Leaders Lay Down Rules for Earmark Ban

By Jackie Kucinich
Roll Call Staff
March 17, 2010, 5:16 p.m.

House Republican leaders sent GOP Members a guidance document Tuesday to explain the unilateral, across-the-board earmark ban and warn their Members against trying to circumvent the new Conference rule.

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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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