Sunday, May 06, 2007

Would the Gentlelady from Missouri Please Sit Down?

Like many of the Senate's Democratic freshmen, Missouri's Claire McCaskill campaigned last year against "earmark" spending projects. A unanimous Senate tightened rules on earmarks earlier this year to signal that it got the message.

McCaskill, however, didn't stop there. She was the only Democrat to co-sponsor a recent Republican effort to set new disclosure rules on earmarks, and some of her Democratic colleagues are grumbling about that.

This is another story in an occasional series about how a freshman senator learns the ways of Washington as her campaign commitments collide with the realities of power in the nation's capital.

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....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.


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