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FILE - In this March 25, 2003, file photo Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's Transportation Secretary Daniel Grabauskas talks to the Associated Press during an interview in Boston, during which he explained Massachusetts and federal highway officials will work together to pursue reimbursements for cost overruns by some Big Dig contractors. Grabauskas, in a June 17, 2004, letter to the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee panel's chief of staff said federal money for the Longfellow Bridge could be provided as part of the "bridge program, a new mega-project or an outside earmark, or a combination of the three." (AP Photo/Lisa Poole, File)

Romney backed earmarks as governor

Last updated Monday, February 13, 2012 - 11:20am

WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney takes a hard line against congressional earmarks, but the GOP presidential front-runner had a more favorable view of federal pork-barrel spending when he was governor of Massachusetts.

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The lot of the municipal official is never an easy one

Standard-Examiner staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, September 3, 2011 - 10:40pm

I had a delightful lunch at Idle Isle with Brigham City Mayor Dennis Fife and two of his council members last week. Our talk reminded me once again of the hard, if not impossible, jobs we expect our elected people to do.

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Hatch can use the state firearm to slay the budget dragon

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Thursday, December 16, 2010 - 12:25am

Hatch can use the state firearm to slay the budget dragon

Fighting pork at last? Sen. Orrin Hatch said Tuesday he is taking his name off $1.2 billion in earmark requests in the 2011 federal budget, and I hope that's a good thing.

Fighting earmarks is all the rage. Before we shower Sen. Hatch with praise for saving the republic from fiscal disaster, a couple of thoughts.

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Earmarkers feast on pork one last time before diet

The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, December 14, 2010 - 2:25pm

WASHINGTON -- The spending barons on Capitol Hill, long used to muscling past opponents of bills larded with pet projects, are seeking one last victory before tea party-backed GOP insurgents storm Congress intent on ending the good old days of pork-barrel politics.

You might call it the last running of the old bulls in Congress.

In the waning days of the lame duck congressional session, Democrats controlling the Senate -- in collaboration with a handful of old school Republicans -- are pushing to wrap more than $1.2 trillion worth of unfinished budget work into a single "omnibus" appropriations bill.

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Senate shuns earmark ban

Andrew Taylor, The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, November 30, 2010 - 2:29pm

WASHINGTON -- By a sizable -- but dwindling margin -- the Senate on Tuesday voted in favor of allowing lawmakers to keep stocking bills with home-state projects like roads, grants to local police departments and clean-water projects.

But with the House set to tumble into GOP hands and anti-earmark reinforcements coming to the Senate in January, the window seems to be closing on the practice.

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