Friends of the Earmark Make Themselves Heard
The hottest document on Capitol Hill is an anonymous six-page white paper that defends, of all things, earmarks -- those much-maligned home-state projects that lawmakers shoehorn into spending bills.
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Consumer Spending Rises a Hair
The job market is bad and getting worse, the stock market is down steeply for the year, and housing prices are still falling. Despite it all, there are early -- and highly tentative -- signs that the deep freeze in Americans' spending is turning into a mere chill.
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