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Lasher

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2. He served for years as chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee
Fri Jul 24, 2020, 12:13 AM
Jul 2020

In that capacity he was able to get boatloads of federal funding directed to the Mountain State. Grateful West Virginians did indeed put his name to a lot of things. I myself was tempted to name our first born after him.

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