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Klaralven

(7,510 posts)
2. That's what "earmarks" were for.
Tue Sep 28, 2021, 02:00 PM
Sep 2021

Earmarks were appropriations that would benefit a specific legislators district and their supporters. The leadership would dole them out to reluctant members in order to get their votes.

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