It’s often tempting to dive into the GOP’s noisy crusade against earmarks, if only to point out the unabashed hypocrisy of lawmakers like Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell — who watched many in his party decry the earmarks in this year’s $410 billion spending bill while securing a nice bit of cash for his own home-state projects.
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