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On the recordMarch 16, 2011
But when you're given the legal language for--or the language in the bill itself, it seems like it is a way to circumvent what has been actually a decision of Congress, right now, on earmarks.
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Kelly Ayotte
Republican · New Hampshire

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Ayotte questions the legal language in the bill regarding earmarks.

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