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To: Terry Maloney who wrote (378405)	11/23/2008 1:05:19 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Paulson is very competent. -ng- Jesse James has penis envy of that dude. Size matters. Take two hundred aspirin and call me in a decade to revisit. ---- More change to believe in.... HONO LULU — U.S. Senator Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, said he will not alter the way lawmaker’s pet projects are financed when he takes over the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee in January. Watchdog groups for years have pressed for more transparency in how the Senate and House appropriations committees operate, with particular emphasis on the financing of pet projects that are placed into annual appropriation measures. These are commonly referred to as pork-barrel projects or earmarks. They also have called for committees to hold public hearings on appropriations bills and allow for them to be placed on the Internet. President-elect Barack Obama has also called for reforms of the system. But in an interview with The Honolulu Advertiser, Inouye said earmarks are a congressional prerogative, and added that he will not change committee procedures. “It will be the same,” he told the newspaper.