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yortsed snacilbuper

(7,939 posts)
Wed Apr 25, 2012, 02:28 AM Apr 2012

Hypocrisy alert=House freshmen: Bring back earmarks


hRep. Tom Reed, who organized the letter, wants to assist a sandal company in New York

In a letter to Speaker John Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, 65 House Republican freshmen — or roughly three-quarters of the class — asked that the House consider a miscellaneous tariff bill jampacked with special provisions to suspend duties on various foreign goods, even though it runs counter to the earmark ban Republicans campaigned on in 2010 and instituted when they took power.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0412/75506.html#ixzz1t1xxDFCd
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Hypocrisy alert=House freshmen: Bring back earmarks (Original Post) yortsed snacilbuper Apr 2012 OP
Jabba the Hut goes to Washington? Major Hogwash Apr 2012 #1
this teabagger is my Rep., sad to say. BlancheSplanchnik Apr 2012 #2

BlancheSplanchnik

(20,219 posts)
2. this teabagger is my Rep., sad to say.
Wed Apr 25, 2012, 07:54 AM
Apr 2012

complete with mailers featuring pics of him and his family, and form letters thanking you for your opinion....as he runs right over it (your opinion and rights, I mean).

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