05/03/2007
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"The President's goal is to reform the earmarking culture that leads to wasteful and excessive pork-barrel spending."
"I told the Congress that I would veto any bill, appropriations bill, that does not cut the number and the amount of earmarks in half."
"I hereby determine that: All provisions of section 1083 of the Act, if applied to Iraq or any agency or instrumentality thereof, may affect Iraq or its agencies or instrumentalities, by exposing Iraq ..."
"Help could be a phone call away."