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Senator seeks rules to mark 'pork' projects
By WASHINGTON POST
Published April 20, 2007
WASHINGTON - Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., moved this week to establish more transparent rules for "earmarks," by which lawmakers send tax dollars to their home states. The time-honored process has been under attack by conservative Republicans who oppose the often quiet way the pork projects are slipped into appropriations bills, sometimes for what the public sees as wasteful projects. The new rules would require all earmarks to be labeled as such, and the requesting senator would have to post on the Internet the purpose of the earmark. Byrd, who has spent half a century in the Senate, is sometimes referred to by critics as the king of pork.
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