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To: Sully- who wrote (61479)	7/31/2007 4:52:00 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (2) of 90947

House to Dump Earmarks, Replace with Nosemarks By Scott Ott, Editor-in-Chief, ScrappleFace.com News Fairly Unbalanced. We Report. You Decipher. (2007-07-31) — An amendment to the House lobbying reform bill would completely eliminate the power of legislators to allocate taxpayer dollars to pet projects through anonymous “earmarks” and replace it with a “totally reformed concept” which would allow lawmakers to allocate taxpayer dollars to pet projects through anonymous “nosemarks.” “This is landmark legislation,” said one unnamed House aide. “The age of corrupt politicians paying off corrupt lobbyists with funding earmarks is over. We have absolutely eliminated Congressional earmarking.” While the text of the measure doesn’t specify all the ways in which nosemarks are different than earmarks, the amendment’s unnamed author said the difference is “dramatically semantic — which should provide comfort to taxpayers concerned about how Congress describes the way we waste their money.” -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- URL to article: scrappleface.com

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