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Local demands testing anti-earmark rhetoric
First-term Republican Rep. Tim Scott of Charleston, S.C., says he's looking for "any way in the world" to get federal money to expand his hometown's aging harbor. It's the one way he won't pursue that's making some South Carolinians angry.Scott, like his state's famously conservative senator, Jim DeMint, is among a new breed of tea party-backed conservatives who have sworn off "earmarks" —

PROMISES, PROMISES: GOP leader reaps $200 million

Senate Republicans' ban on earmarks — money included in a bill by a lawmaker to benefit a home-state project or interest — was short-lived.

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FACT CHECK: Ban on pet projects mostly symbolic

Despite their claims, the Republicans' ban on earmarks won't stop lawmakers from steering taxpayers' dollars to pet projects. And it will have little if any effect on Washington's far graver

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FACT CHECK: Ban on pet projects mostly symbolic

Despite their claims, a Republican ban on earmarks won't stop lawmakers from steering taxpayers' dollars to pet projects. And it will have little if any impact on Washington's far graver problem

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Senate Democrats swim against anti-earmark tide

Now that Republicans have abandoned the you-scratch-my-back, I'll-scratch-yours earmark process, Democrats who still hold a majority in the Senate have to decide whether they'll try to prop up a

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Senate Democrats swim against anti-earmark tide

Now that Republicans have abandoned the you-scratch-my-back, I'll-scratch-yours earmark process, Democrats who still hold a majority in the Senate have to decide whether they'll try to prop up a

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