March 28, 2003
Lawmakers Advocate Cutting Pork Projects
A group of fiscally conservative members of the U.S. House of Representatives proposed this month that Congress strip all pork-barrel projects that lawmakers provided to constituents from a vast spending bill enacted in February for the 2003 fiscal year.
The move was largely symbolic, and the measure has little chance of passing, because many members of both parties vie to secure the projects, known as earmarks, for organizations they represent, including many colleges. A few lone
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