If you thought Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) was going to let the berries in his state go unresearched and the vistas of alternative uses for salmon unexplored just because he’s under federal investigation for past earmarks (among other things), then you thought wrong. Roll Call (sub. req.) reports that Stevens pulled down $88 million in earmarks in this year’s omnibus spending bill. Among them:
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=179144