Senate Unanimously Approves DeMint-Pelosi Earmark Transparency Reform


	Senate Unanimously Approves DeMint-Pelosi Earmark Transparency Reform

jasontromm

1-19-2007 9:06 AM

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earmarks, congress, reform, politics, republicans, democrats

jasontromm says:

Politics really does make strange bedfellows.

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