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January 19, 2007

Democrats Put Pork Lovers in Academe on a Diet

By JEFFREY BRAINARD

Congress plans to give close scrutiny to earmarks, freezing them in 2007

College officials are bracing for some hard braking on one of their favorite gravy trains. The Democratic majority in Congress plans to increase oversight of earmarks, the noncompetitive grants that members steer to academic institutions, and to decrease sharply their number in the 2007 fiscal year.

The change comes after a dozen years of Congressional generosity with pork-barrel spending, including for

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Another Record Year for Academic Pork - September 27, 2002
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