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	Harry ethics

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7-30-2007 6:04 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/36e92fe9-9909-49b5-b726-603f91d7dae2/E217C49D-A59A-439C-A841-4DCDC0A8A3C5/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.redstate.com/stories/congress/harry_reids_ethics_bill_eviscerates_earmark_reform_0" href="http://www.redstate.com/stories/congress/harry_reids_ethics_bill_eviscerates_earmark_reform_0" style="font-size: 11px;">www.redstate.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.redstate.com/stories/congress/harry_reids_ethics_bill_eviscerates_earmark_reform_0"><P>Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has <A href="http://" linkindex="17" set="yes">rewritten his signature ethics reform bill</A> to strip it of meaningful earmark reform, a remarkable development for a Democrat who promised to clean up Washington. Text of the bill was released this morning and is available at the <A href="http://porkbusters.org/2007/07/weak_tea_indeed_democratic_lea.php#004606" linkindex="18">Porkbusters</A> website. Senators Tom Coburn (R.-Okla.) and Jim DeMint (R.-S.C.) have promised a fight.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.redstate.com/stories/congress/harry_reids_ethics_bill_eviscerates_earmark_reform_0"><P>The chart below was put together by Coburn's office to show the extent of the changes. Meanwhile, DeMint's office says the senator will <A href="http://demint.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=18889906-1321-0e36-ba69-a0cfe09f191c" linkindex="19" set="yes">offer an amendment</A> with his earmark reform language, which was agreed to on a <A href="http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=1&vote=00011" linkindex="20">98-0 vote</A> in January. The concern is that Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R.-Ky.), fearful of picking a fight over ethics reform, might cave in to Reid.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.redstate.com/stories/congress/harry_reids_ethics_bill_eviscerates_earmark_reform_0"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.redstate.com/img/A503E470-6AFD-42A9-B02E-90522B8D4B81" alt="" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E217C49D-A59A-439C-A841-4DCDC0A8A3C5/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>