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House members are scrambling to sort through earmark requests that are due Friday, just one week after House Appropriations Chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., rolled out new guidelines for “community project funding” that cut off a lucrative avenue for delivering social services benefits back home. Some offices had started soliciting and reviewing project requests earlier this year, […]
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